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[2003:ee:6715:5401:6d56:3c83:e0a2:f913]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m17sm6756724wrw.3.2020.03.19.22.04.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Putting packages up for adoption To: Yaakov Selkowitz , cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <3b025c35-607a-8e2e-d291-6ba76a1de3f4@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:04:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, KAM_SHORT, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin-apps mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:04:49 -0000 Am 20.03.2020 um 04:47 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz: > Hello Cygwin package maintainers, > > As you all probably noted, I haven't been around much. My team at work > has been really busy accomplishing some pretty amazing feats over the > last number of months, most recently: > > https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/red-hat-openshift-now-available-ibm-z-linuxone/ > > While it's been great for my career, it obviously hasn't been so good > for you and the community as a whole, as I've really had absolutely no > time to work on Cygwin packaging. In fact, I've barely used my Windows > machine and VMs at all for quite some time. And to be completely > honest, it really doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon > either. > > To that end, in the best interest of the community, please consider my > packages up for adoption. I don't expect that any one person will take > all of them; some are obsolete and due for removal anyway, some should > be picked up as soon as possible, and others might just end up > bitrotting if nobody is interested in them. However, in whatever there > is interest (or need), hopefully what is there now will serve as a > strong foundation to on which to continue to build. > > (And just to be perfectly clear, we're all in good health; this has > nothing to do with the current crisis, except that maybe some of you > have more time at home now to use to the benefit of Cygwin.) > > I'll continue lurking on the lists, and with this burden off my > shoulders, try to transition to being a little more active as a mentor. > So, please feel free to ask questions (on list, please), particularly > if you don't understand why I did something in my packaging. There is > (or at least was at the time!) a good reason for all of it, even though > I often neglected to document why. I'll try to do what I can to make > this as smooth as possible. > > All the best, stay safe, and keep on building! > > -- > Yaakov > Hi Yaakov, thanks of letting us know. I guess that most of us clearly understood that work took over and as you have clearly a talent to make stuff work together I am not surprised that Redhat is using that to full speed. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Marco PS for all the others: "Houston we have a problem.." $ awk '{$1="" ; print }' cygwin-pkg-maint | sort | uniq -c |sort -rn 2691 Yaakov Selkowitz 244 Achim Gratz 165 Marco Atzeri 162 Jari Aalto 140 ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz) 95 Ken Brown 82 Achim Gratz/Yaakov Selkowitz 47 Achim Gratz/Ken Brown 42 ORPHANED (Dr. Volker Zell) 33 Corinna Vinschen 29 Jon Turney 28 Andrew Schulman 22 ORPHANED (David Stacey) 22 Jonathan Yong 21 Eric Blake 18 David Rothenberger 9 ORPHANED 8 ORPHANED (Charles Wilson) 8 Christian Franke ....