Putting packages up for adoption

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Mar 20 18:40:44 GMT 2020


[Sending to other address as my access to cygwin-apps appears to be 
broken, responses bouncing]

Am 20.03.2020 um 13:09 schrieb Jon Turney:
> On 20/03/2020 03:47, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> Hello Cygwin package maintainers,
> [...]
>> To that end, in the best interest of the community, please consider my
>> packages up for adoption.  I don't expect that any one person will take
>> all of them; some are obsolete and due for removal anyway, some should
>> be picked up as soon as possible, and others might just end up
>> bitrotting if nobody is interested in them.  However, in whatever there
>> is interest (or need), hopefully what is there now will serve as a
>> strong foundation to on which to continue to build.
>
> It's been a pleasure working with you (since 2008!).  Thanks for all 
> your hard work over the years!
>
> I will volunteer to adopt the X.org packages (note by this I really 
> mean stuff that comes from X.org, it doesn't include toolkits like Qt 
> or GTK+, or desktop environments like MATE or XFCE)
I can offer to adopt xterm, unicode-ucd and 
unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation, generalizing the latter to unicode-cldr.
Thomas


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