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Re: mintty project


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

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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