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Re: Package Maintainer List


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> As requested by Lapo, here's the latest Package Maintainer List.
> Feel free to correct me if I got something wrong or missed some
> change.
> 
> The original list I'm maintaining is just ordered alphabetically,
> so it doesn't have this neat sections for orphaned and maintained
> packages.  However, since it's always supposed to represent the latest
> state, I decided to make it publically available:
> 
>   http://cygwin.de/htdocs/cygwin-pkg-maint
>   http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
> 
> But now the famous list of packages.
{snip}
>   distcc                         (Harold L Hunt II)

My intention conveyed in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00104.html still holds.
There's been no upstream newer release of distcc in the interim -- I am
carefully monitoring the distcc list. There *is* a recently posted bug
report and patch which hasn't been acknowledged yet by the distcc
upstream maintainer (author). It would seem that maybe he's a bit busy
right now. Speaking of which ...

Can i respectfully point out that this time of year, depending on what
culture and society we live in, is an extremely hectic one -- maybe the
most pressured of the entire calendar. Some people may not be aware of
this, but in North America we have a quaint custom called "Christmas"
in which we often have special obligation to arrange togetherness with
family, plan gifts to give to others, etc. People not of Christian
faith (as i am not) are still part of the society and in my case, do
have such obligations, or similar ones existing around holidays like
Chaunukha or New Years. Making announcements to solicit maintainers
for the orphaned packages right at this moment may result in a far
narrower "catch" of potentially-interested persons than if it had
waited until after the holidays were over ...

I'd still like to be maintainer of distcc. I'd like to have a little
more time to see what's up with upstream packages and to do my holiday
thing. Unless there are pending bug reports against cygwin's distcc
package, or an upstream maintainence release has been made which mifgt
affect cygwin, i don't feel a rush for adoption-action (creation of the
new release) is warrented in this case (and maybe others like it).

  Regards,
     Soren Andersen


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