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Re: no more package moratorium?
- From: E <evsub at deathsdoor dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:08:36 +1100
- Subject: Re: no more package moratorium?
Robert Collins wrote:
>I agree. They must also *At this point* agree to maintain the package do
>upgrades feed patches to the vendor etc, and that they will announce
>publicly if they decide to stop maintaining the package with as much
>warning as possible. Packages with no maintainers are pulled after 3
>months.
And perhaps put a big "[UNMAINTAINED]" on the start of the description for
that three months to perhaps prompt an enterprising soul to take it
up? (Or at least as a warning of it's immanent departure :-) )
E.
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