public inbox for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updating glib2.0
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 13:20:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rao6ph$1m1u$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40b45876-ba7b-8923-e228-3bbeff0f6fb5@cornell.edu>

> 1. It's probably unrealistic to expect someone to adopt all the GNOME 
> components.  If such a person existed, I think we would have heard from 
> him/her by now.

Ideally that person would have some ties into the upstream development 
community as well.  It might be worth asking there directly if anybody 
has any points of contact already (I don't).

> 2. I'm willing to adopt various components on an as-needed basis.  For 
> example, since I want to update gimp and it needs an updated glib2.0, 
> I'm willing to adopt the latter and update it to its latest release.  
> I've just started working on it and discovered that it needs an updated 
> gtk-doc, so I'll plan on adopting that too.

I think the current way of adopting as needed and then immediately 
letting it fall into orphaned status again is better than doing nothing, 
but eventually we'll run into troublöe with that model.


-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-22 23:18 Ken Brown
2020-05-23 18:08 ` Ken Brown
2020-05-27 14:15   ` Ken Brown
2020-05-28 11:20     ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2020-05-29  2:29       ` Ken Brown

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='rao6ph$1m1u$1@ciao.gmane.io' \
    --to=stromeko@nexgo.de \
    --cc=cygwin-apps@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).