Inactive maintainer package orphaning

[Jon Turney]

On 16/02/2025 06:44, 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.

Thanks very much! This is much appreciated.

Don't be afraid to change your mind, just let us know.

>> These packages are all leaves in the dependency tree, and so maybe 
>> also candidates for removal:
>>
>> chere ('Cygwin Prompt Here') is probably still used and useful, but 
>> could probably benefit from some love and better integration (as 
>> discussed at [1], nearly a year ago now, sigh...)
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255441.html
>>
>> tftpd is potentially useful for booting really dumb pieces of 
>> hardware, but the version we provide is so old, this may be a disservice.
>>
>> ELFIO (which should perhaps be named elfio-devel) is a header-only 
>> library, so may be build-time dependency of other packages. 
>> Unfortunately that information is not recorded for many older packages.
>> My brief searches haven't discovered any users of it.
> 
> Appreciate the current status notes.  I would make use of each in turn. 
> I have a special interest with 'task': I'd like to provide a current 
> version on Cygwin in spite of its upstream recommending WSL over Cygwin. 
>   We'll see.