Re: mintty project

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On May 31 23:15, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> As a contributor to mintty, some sent me a notice discussing the move to
> github (http://www.reddit.com/r/cygwin/comments/37vgwi/what_happened_to_minttys_maintainer_andy_kopp/)
> and now there is already a github fork of mintty
> (https://github.com/nowox/mintty/tree/master/src).
> I'd like to discuss what you (cygwin maintainers and others) think of this
> move, whether it's good for mintty to be hosted on github. Personally I feel
> that a platform like sourceforge provides a more professional project
> environment which would provide more confidence in stable project
> development.
> What do you think?

It's not so much the hosting service providing the upstream repository
which concerns me, it's the lack of development, the lack of a responsive
maintainer, and the lack of a new, stable mintty package.  You're in for
one of the newly created pink plush hippos if you're going to take over
mintty maintainership ;)

Having said that, github is ok.


Corinna

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