Counter-ITP of doxygen

[Carlo Florendo]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On May  4 17:27, Carlo Florendo wrote:
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>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>>It's now time to move on to the actual work of getting the new version
>>>of doxygen into the cygwin release.
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>>I'd like to ask whether someone has ever maintained a package that he 
>>did not personally use.   If so, how do you respond to "usage" questions? 
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>Another mailing list dedicated to the package.
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>>And, if a maintainer takes a 3 week vacation, can he request someone to 
>>take over for the time being? 
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>There's always "silence" who can take over for this time...
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>>Lastly, what if the maintainer does not have the technical skill to 
>>debug the package being maintained (but just has the capability to 
>>package new releases?)
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>Yes, that is a problem.  IMHO a maintainer should at least be able to
>port the package by him- or herself to Cygwin and not rely on foreign
>work.  Some knowledge how to use the package would be fine, too, but
>sometimes people just use a small part of the features of a package
>and don't know others.  Nothing wrong with that, as long as the maintainer
>knows about the Cygwin specific glitches.  Every general package use is
>typically not to be discussed on the Cygwin list anyway.
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>As for debugging... if somebody ports a package, basic debugging skills
>are either available or will build up the hard way.
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>Corinna
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Thank you Corinna.  Let me practice cygwin-packaging some apps for 
myself....

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
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