Up for adoption: ctags and expat

[Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>]

I’m the current maintainer of these two packages.  As it happens,
I have never seriously used either under Cygwin.  I only adopted
ctags because it was abandoned in 2003 and was in danger of being
removed from the distribution after repeated attempts to contact its
maintainer in 2005 failed.  Since I do use ctags on other platforms,
I decided that I was at least in a position to keep it in Cygwin,
so I adopted it.  The situation was less drastic with expat: I simply
took over the package’s maintenance when Brian Dessent stepped down
in 2008.

The time has come for someone else to maintain these packages.

But not just anyone.  I do not want to drop another twig onto the
back of someone who’s already carrying a lot for the Cygwin project.
I’d prefer that these packages to go to someone who’s been looking
to jump into Cygwin package maintainership, and has just been waiting
for an excuse. 

These two are a mixed bag when it comes to ease of maintainership, 
each for very different reasons.

The easy part with ctags is that there hasn’t been an upstream 
release since 2009, and there is no reason to expect that there will 
be another.  The hard part is that the shipped Makefile doesn’t
understand how to do out-of-tree builds, something Cygport expects
to be able to do, so I had to write a custom build script to produce 
the current packages, which might have to be adjusted by the next
maintainer of this package, if a new version comes out with the same
primitive build system. 

As for expat, the easy part is that it builds out of the box under
Cygport, and I’ve already worked out the .cygport file for you, so a
new maintainer should have a very easy time with that part of the job.
The only difficult bit is that there has been a recent flurry of 
security patches to it, which makes building it more difficult than 
if you were just building from upstream release tarballs.  That said, 
it’s been a while since the last one, so maybe this is the beginning 
of another of the long lulls expat seems to go into.

If no such person steps up, I will stay on as maintainer.