On Jun 1 16:16, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2015-06-01 10:36 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > It's not so much the hosting service providing the upstream repository > > which concerns me, it's the lack of development, the lack of a responsive > > maintainer, and the lack of a new, stable mintty package. You're in for > > one of the newly created pink plush hippos if you're going to take over > > mintty maintainership ;) > > > > Having said that, github is ok. > > Would it be useful for cygwin to have its own place on GitHub? This > could be the place to host the mintty sources and maybe other things > as well. > > There is a user named "cygwin" on github, but it appear very inactive. > https://github.com/cygwin > GitHub has a policy for that: > https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/ > > So if interested, maybe Corinna or Yaakov (being our project leaders) > could ask GitHub to hand that account to them. And after that turn it > into an organization where projects like this can be hosted. This way > the project doesn't depend on one person to have full access when > needed to these kind of repos. > Just an idea.
We could also put mintty under the cygwin-apps cover on sourceware. We just need to fetch a git repo or import the original svn repo. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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