I realize it is a volunteer effort, and a good one, it really makes windows much nicer to work with! I am not demanding or expecting anything. I am only trying to start a discussion that could lead to a possible solution.
I think that this could be done without "much" effort, or the work of a single person. I think with a little bit of work, (and some extra disk), a system could be set up where most of the work was pushed to the package maintainers. I (being a package maintainer) would not mind the extra work. If there were say a release of cygwin three times a year, where all the curr packages where moved to cygwin-curr. And only bug fixes where allowed into the cygwin-curr setup tag. Maintainers of individual packages could either fix bugs found in the cygwin-curr, or post a read me explaining the work-around. Of course this is just an idea, and I do not have the time or the knowledge of how setup.exe works to implement it. -Bill At 08:15 AM 1/28/2003 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Bill, IMO you are missing a key point: > >Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no >stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they >become stale) have stepped up. > >The *only* way you will get a stable release is to: >1) offer to take on all the extra workload needed. >2) ask (nicely :}) for disk space at sources.redhat.com to hold (1) >possibly outdated copy of each package. >3) patch setup.exe, or talk nicely to me :} to give it the functionality >needed to support such an endeavour. > >I've spoken in favour of such an arrangement before, but didn't have the >time or personal need to justify making it happen. > >Oh, and if a 'stable' cygwin became the most downloaded one, I'm sure >you would get more assistance from the community - but trying to >convince us to do it is pretty pointless: we are already contributing >time and effort, and there has been plenty of opportunity for an extant >maintainer to pipe up with "I'll do it". > >Cheers, >Rob >-- >GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
