Intent to orphan

[Jon Turney]

On 26/09/2026 13:04, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm intending to abandon the various packages I maintain. I'll copy
> the full list below, but most importantly, that includes Git.
> 
> A combination of shifting to WSL in work and native Linux on my
> personal machines means I haven't needed Cygwin for a while. I wanted
> to keep looking after the packages I maintain, but family caregiving
> responsibilities mean I just haven't had the time and energy.
> Acknowledging that and passing the baton is well overdue.
> 
> This will leave the following packages without a maintainer:
> 
> - asciidoc
> - git
> - git-filter-repo
> - inih
> - moreutils
> - python-rfc6555
> - rdfind
> - the_silver_searcher
> 
> I've made sure all the repositories at
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/ are up to date with my latest
> packaging code. Some of them only have tags, not branches, as a
> side-effect of the way I'd been building packages, but they do all
> have tags corresponding to the latest uploaded packages.
> 
> I'll probably take myself off the Cygwin mailing lists at some point
> in the next few weeks, but I'm happy for folk to contact me directly
> after then if there's a chance I might be able to help.
> 
> The Cygwin project and community was my entry point into open source
> software. To everyone involved: thank you.
Adam,

Thanks very much for all your efforts on these packages, particularly 
for maintaining the git package since 2014! I've certainly used it a lot :)!