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Re: Future of emacs maintainership
On May 14 07:43, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/14/2009 4:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May 14 08:28, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>>> Hi cygwinners,
>>>
>>> as you mentioned in the last months, i'd a lot of problems to fulfill my task as cygwin emacs maintainer. This has many reasons. There is this rsync/cygport problem mentioned sometimes before i have at my machine, but also a lack of time for the cygwin work coming from a really stressful personal time. And it isn't foreseeable that this will change in the next time.
>>>
>>> So i've no chance but giving back the gold star in the hope that someone else will take the maintainership for emacs. May be Ken Brown is the right one.
>>>
>>> I'm really sorry,
>>> Steffen
>>
>> No worries. Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Ken? Would you mind to take over?
>
> I'm willing to do it, provided you're willing to have me as a
> maintainer, given my minimal qualifications. As I said in
Everything's better than no maintaner at all, right? :)
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00061.html), I have no
> programming or debugging skills. If you still want me to do it, the
> links to my builds of emacs-23 packages are in
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00116.html; these are
> intended to replace the existing 22.1-3 test packages (cygwin 1.7 only).
>
> I *think* the packaging is OK, but, since I've never built a cygwin
> package before, I'd appreciate it if you or one of the experienced
> package maintainers would take a look before you upload it.
Just post the links to the packages in a RFU.
Thanks,
Corinna
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