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 :-)
next prev parent 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
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