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Re: Request for new maintainers
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:44:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Request for new maintainers
- References: <404503.57357.qm@web51509.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sep 18 22:19, James R. Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regrettably I must request that new maintainers be found for all my
> packages. I have been unable for months to devote any time to this
> worthwhile project, and don't see any relief in sight.
>
> The package that sparked my interest in package maintenance is octave,
> and octave 3.0 will probably be released shortly. There is a steady
> stream of messages on the octave-maintainers mailing list regarding
> experimental cygwin packages. I know that those building the packages
> are reading the cygwin lists, and I hope a capable person will
> volunteer to pick up this work and carry it forward for the cygwin
> project. Currently the best octave builds appear to require custom
> gcc builds, with sjlj exceptions disabled. This limitation of gcc in
> conjuction with octave has been a bugaboo for quite a while, and any
> solid approaches to resolving it would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks very much for letting me participate, and my apologies for
> being so neglectful for several months.
Oops, that's bad news, really. Thanks for your efforts to maintain
these packages. I added all your packages to the "Orphaned" category
in my package list. If anybody feels up to the task, below are
James' packages, and the subpackages they consist of.
epstool
fftw3
fftw3-dev
fftw3-doc
ghostscript
ghostscript-base
ghostscript-x11
lapack
octave
octave-doc
octave-forge
octave-headers
octave-htmldoc
octave-info
octave-otags
plotutils
plotutils-devel
plotutils-doc
libplot2
libplotter2
libxmi0
pstoedit
pstoedit-devel
Thanks again for your time you spent on these packages. I guess
especially your octave maintainership will be missed.
Corinna
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