Re: Counter-ITP of doxygen (was: Re: Please upload: doxygen-1.4.2_20050410-1(n'th take))

[Carlo Florendo <list-subscriber at hq dot astra dot ph>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:26:20PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>  
>
> > FWIW, I fully support your stance that your unilaterally-imposed
> > "disqualification" was unwarranted.  At the same time, it's not
> > difficult to understand Hans' consternation and reaction to the
> > situation.  Doxygen is a very useful package, and it would be sad for
> > the "Cygwin immune system" to reject its inclusion on the basis that
> > somebody did too much work.
> >    
>
> I think this subject is closed:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00011.html
>
> It's now time to move on to the actual work of getting the new version
> of doxygen into the cygwin release.
>
> cgf
>
>  

I'd like to ask whether someone has ever maintained a package that he 
did not personally use.   If so, how do you respond to "usage" questions? 

And, if a maintainer takes a 3 week vacation, can he request someone to 
take over for the time being? 

Lastly, what if the maintainer does not have the technical skill to 
debug the package being maintained (but just has the capability to 
package new releases?)

In any case, I wanted not to say the following but I can't help 
it....the tone of the recent cygwin and cygwin-apps posts have beaten 
the Korean soap operas that are being shown on TV at our cafeteria 
during lunch.  :)

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
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