Inactive maintainer package orphaning

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Sun Feb 16 07:39:40 GMT 2025


On 2/15/2025 11:04 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 16/02/2025 07:44, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 2/15/2025 6:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> I've orphaned the following packages:
>>>
>>> chere                                        Dave Kilroy
>>> ELFIO                                        Serge Lamikhov-Center
>>> task                                         Federico Hernandez
>>> tftp                                         Gernot Hillier
>>>
>>> The maintainers of which have been inactive for a long time, and 
>>> didn't respond to my attempts to contact them.
>>>
>>> Consequently, these maintainers' (long unused) ssh keys are also 
>>> disabled.
>>
>> In the interest of helping with the Cygwin ecosystem, I'm willing to 
>> take on these four packages.  Even if I can't update them immediately 
>> I'm sure to be more responsive on the mailing lists than the current 
>> maintainers.  I'll find some tuits around here somewhere.
>>
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I was playing with tftp, attached my trial
> the missing portion is the install one.
> 
> And of course the testing.
> 
> Regards
> Marco

Thank you very much for this, Marco.
Regards,

..mark



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