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Re: 4th summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)


On Oct 10 08:28, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> The following is useful information from me... I'm giving some guidance 
> on decisions that need to be made, but I've long since relinquished any 
> responsibility to make those decisions, so just ignore my advice if you 
> disagree, rather than getting all uppity about how I'm not in charge and 
> shouldn't be making these sorts of decisions.
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Sep 15 18:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >LIST 3: PACKAGES WITHOUT REPLY FROM MAINTAINER SO FAR
> >=====================================================
> >
> 
> [...]
> >  cygwin-x-doc
> 
> I'm listed as the maintainer in the README, but I haven't been 
> maintaining this since mid-2004.  Alexander Gottwald would taken this 
> over, but he's not involved with Cygwin/X anymore, so I guess this 
> should fall to Alan H.  But, if no one takes it, it needs to go away and 
> people can access Cygwin/X docos on the website.
> 
> [...]
> >  x-start-menu-icons
> >  x-startup-scripts
> 
> Alexander Gottwald is listed as the maintainer for these, but he isn't 
> involved with Cygwin/X anymore, so these should go to Alan H.  These 
> can't really be removed... so Alan H really needs to find a maintainer 
> for them if he doesn't want them.
> >  xwinclip
> 
> I'm still listed as the maintainer of this and I declare it obsolete. 
> I'm not going to maintain it anymore and it doesn't need to exist 
> anymore, so please remove it from the distribution.

I've moved it to the _obsolete group.

> >  xwinwm
> 
> I'm still listed as the maintainer of this.  This is a window manager 
> that goes hand-in-hand with a feature in Cygwin/X... but that feature 
> was never finished and hasn't been updated since April of 2004.  I claim 
> this is dead... but it should probably be assigned to Alan H. and he can 
> request that it be removed if he isn't going to pursue it any further.

Alan, could you please comment on the above raised points and packages,

  cygwin-x-doc
  x-start-menu-icons
  x-startup-scripts
  xwinwm

?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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