On Mon, January 18, 2010 8:39 pm, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 18/01/2010 13:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think we could relax the ITP process if you wanted to do some bulk >> moves but I would hate to have anyone have to support so many packages. >> Even if I wasn't just concerned about your free time and sanity, I'd >> be worried what would happen if you left the project. > > Precisely why I've hesitated to take on lots more packages within the > distro.
I've thought on this over the last few days and would like to share them with the list; 1) Yaakov has a *huge* number of packages over at cygports many of which could benefit everyone (or, at least more easily available for more folks) if they were part of the main cygwin distro(? is there a better way to describe this) 2) All of them are (AFAIU) built with cygports which should make maintenance of the package far easier and transfer of maintainership easier/safer 3) If Yaakov stopped doing this (please correct me if I'm wrong) the majority of the packages on cygports would stop being maintained and would bit-rot as more upstream releases aren't packaged. Ok, thoughts. If Yaakov brought lots (most?) of the packages into the main distro; 1) Yaakov could continue to support the packages as he currently does on cygports, but everyone would benefit from better integration 2) If Yaakov ([deity] forbid) decided to stop supporting them they would _still_ have a cygport which should make 'pickup' easier. 3) If Yaakov wished to reduce the number of packages he supports I'm sure a page could be added to the cygwin.com site to list packages which are available to be taken over (actually, an orphaned page might not be a bad idea anyway?). This 'take over' would, I'm sure, be made easier by the existence of the cygport. Anyway, all this is just talk; the only people who could make this happen are Yaakov, Christopher and Corinna. Thanks for reading this far! J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
