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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:30:11 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin Release process
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:15:01AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Bill, IMO you are missing a key point:
>
>Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no
>stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they
>become stale) have stepped up.
>
>The *only* way you will get a stable release is to:
>1) offer to take on all the extra workload needed.
>2) ask (nicely :}) for disk space at sources.redhat.com to hold (1)
>possibly outdated copy of each package.
>3) patch setup.exe, or talk nicely to me :} to give it the functionality
>needed to support such an endeavour.
>
>I've spoken in favour of such an arrangement before, but didn't have the
>time or personal need to justify making it happen.
>
>Oh, and if a 'stable' cygwin became the most downloaded one, I'm sure
>you would get more assistance from the community - but trying to
>convince us to do it is pretty pointless: we are already contributing
>time and effort, and there has been plenty of opportunity for an extant
>maintainer to pipe up with "I'll do it".

I will provide space on sources.redhat.com, if someone is interested in
doing this.

For the record, I have no interest in changing anything.  DJ and I were
well aware of the fact that the Cygwin release process would be
different from Red Hat or Debian when we instituted the current policy.
I don't see anything particularly broken in the process now* so I'm not
going to be making any fixes.  However, I'll support someone with disk
space if they want to experiment with doing things differently.

cgf

*But I will, if pressed, offer many more opinions on this thread, so be
warned.

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