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Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?
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Sorry for the unclarity - I meant this for the whole list - not just you.

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.  Like you said, this
really is all volunteers.

For the whole list:

Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it
make sense to defer on further non-emergency releases of Cygwin until all
packages that are EOL have been updated?  Since this is the case with ruby,
I am guessing it's likely the case with other packages in Cygwin too.

Is there a Issues log of some sort (ala github) for Cygwin somewhere, so
that I can document this in the backlog and come back later to investigate
this myself if I have time this winter?


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 8:11 PM Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> wrote:

> On 10/11/2023 6:36 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D wrote:
> > Hi Eliot,
> >
> > Thanks for responding.  That makes total sense.
> >
> > Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it
> make sense to defer on further non-emergency releases of Cygwin until all
> packages that are EOL have been updated?  Since this is the case with ruby,
> I am guessing it's likely the case with other packages in Cygwin too.
> >
> > Is there a backlog for Cygwin somewhere, so that I can investigate this
> myself if I have time this winter?
> >
> > Thank you and all the best,
> > Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 5:03 PM
> > To: Hendrickson, Eric D <edh AT optum DOT com>; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Cc: Eric @ Gmail <ericdavidhendrickson AT gmail DOT com>
> > Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?
> >
> > On 10/11/2023 12:37 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin
> here at my place of work.  Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6
> which EOL about 18 months ago?
> >>
> >> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/
> >>
> >> I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby in case some
> security risk / 0Day is identified.
> >>
> >> Please advise.
> >> Eric Hendrickson
>
> You should send such things to the list, not me.  I'm just
> a user who has only made occasional small contributions ...
>
> Eliot
>
> > If nobody has responded I can give a generic response:
> > "Because cygwin is all volunteer and someone has not volunteered, or did
> volunteer and is behind, or fell off the radar."
> >
> > Someone else will know how to look up if there is a currently registered
> volunteer for Ruby ...
> >
> > Eliot Moss
> >
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