Re: I suggest creation of a list of package maintainers

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Max Bowsher schrieb am 2001-08-25, 20:15:

>Dear List,
>    I notice that some cygwin packages are not current with the main
>versions. I believe (as there is no CYGWIN-PATCHES directory in most of the
>source tarballs) that the build is mostly OOTB. No doubt there are many on
>the cygwin list like me, whose skills are not up to complex porting jobs,
>but could help out with mundane maintenance. To help this, I suggest a list
>of maintained and unmaintained packages. I suggest that all package
>maintainers send a note (need not be any more than the name of the
>package(s) you maintain) to me at max@bowshernet.freeserve.co.uk and once I
>have recieved several replies, I will publish a collated list on the web.
>
>!!! Comments? Do you think this would be a useful resource?

What about the cygwin-apps list?

>As I see it, the main use of such a list would be to prevent people from
>stepping on each others toes regarding maintaining packages.
>
>Regards,
>Max.

Gerrit


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