Re: Adopt ssmtp?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun  7 22:44, Charles Wilson wrote:
> From digging thru the mail archives, I see that back in 2003 and 
> earlier Corinna maintained ssmtp:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00028.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00835.html
> 
> However, in late 2003, it looks like Robert Schneck took over:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00290.html
> His first release was about a month later:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-01/msg00006.html
> and over the next eight months released a half dozen revisions. 
> However, the last one, from Aug 2004
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-08/msg00044.html
> is the current version on sourceware, and Robert's web page 
> http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/index.html says "I used to 
> maintain the sSMTP package for Cygwin."
> 
> From the last package audit (has it really been almost two years?) 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-09/msg00452.html

I'm still maintaining the list of packages and their respective
maintainers, though.  If there's a need for another round of maintainer
audit, I don't start from NULL.

> it seems that ssmtp was unmaintained.

You missed one crucial piece of information:

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-10/msg00284.html

> Seems a shame for all that to go to waste, so I'm offering to adopt this 
> package.  -src and binary packages here:
> 
> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/ssmtp-2.61-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/ssmtp-2.61-1.tar.bz2

You have upload privs, right?  Just go ahead.

Thanks for taking over ssmtp!  I carved your name into the ssmtp line on
my evil list of Cygwin sla^Wmaintainers.

Igor?  A star, a golden one?


Corinna

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