Future of emacs maintainership

[Ken Brown]

On 5/14/2009 4:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 14 08:28, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> Hi cygwinners,
>>
>> as you mentioned in the last months, i'd a lot of problems to fulfill my task as cygwin emacs maintainer. This has many reasons. There is this rsync/cygport problem mentioned sometimes before i have at my machine, but also a lack of time for the cygwin work coming from a really stressful personal time. And it isn't foreseeable that this will change in the next time.
>>
>> So i've no chance but giving back the gold star in the hope that someone else will take the maintainership for emacs. May be Ken Brown is the right one.
>>
>> I'm really sorry,
>> Steffen
> 
> No worries.  Thanks for your help.
> 
> Ken?  Would you mind to take over?

I'm willing to do it, provided you're willing to have me as a 
maintainer, given my minimal qualifications.  As I said in 
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00061.html), I have no 
programming or debugging skills.  If you still want me to do it, the 
links to my builds of emacs-23 packages are in 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00116.html; these are 
intended to replace the existing 22.1-3 test packages (cygwin 1.7 only).

I *think* the packaging is OK, but, since I've never built a cygwin 
package before, I'd appreciate it if you or one of the experienced 
package maintainers would take a look before you upload it.

I'm leaving town tomorrow for a few days.  I will have email access, but 
I won't have time to deal with any problems.  So I probably shouldn't 
send out an announcement about the new packages until I return (Tuesday 
or Wednesday).

Ken