Request for new maintainers

["James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

Regrettably I must request that new maintainers be found for all my packages.  I have been unable for months to devote any time to this worthwhile project, and don't see any relief in sight.

The package that sparked my interest in package maintenance is octave, and octave 3.0 will probably be released shortly.  There is a steady stream of messages on the octave-maintainers mailing list regarding experimental cygwin packages.  I know that those building the packages are reading the cygwin lists, and I hope a capable person will volunteer to pick up this work and carry it forward for the cygwin project.  Currently the best octave builds appear to require custom gcc builds, with sjlj exceptions disabled.  This limitation of gcc in conjuction with octave has been a bugaboo for quite a while, and any solid approaches to resolving it would be very welcome.

Thanks very much for letting me participate, and my apologies for being so neglectful for several months.

Sincerely,

James R. Phillips