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Re: ITP moratorium
- From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <1 at pervalidus dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:43:48 -0300 (BRT)
- Subject: Re: ITP moratorium
- References: <20040305200924.GA7062@redhat.com>
Agreed 100%.
But it's also a shame that http://cygwin.com/ported.html
contains so many broken or outdated links. Can I go through it
and submit a diff ?
And maybe someone should make a cygwinfind.net,
cygwinpackages.net, or something outside Cywin to host such
packages.
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We've had a flood of package ITPs and a missing package maintainer.
>
> I'm imposing a moratorium on ITPs for now.
>
> I think I'm beginning to detect the sign of breakage in the process and
> possibly am detecting the fact that we are overloading setup.exe.
>
> It is rather a shame that we have a package like coreutils going
> unclaimed while people are busily proposing other packages which would
> be of general utility to only a tiny percentage of cygwin users.
>
> Maybe it's time to sweep through the list again and see if we are
> missing any maintainers, too. Corinna did you do this last time?
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