On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:34:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 17 16:14, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 9/17/2010 3:16 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 09:37 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. >> >> Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would >> >> like to take over maintainership. >> > >> > Apache2 is too important to lose from the distro, so: >> > >> > http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ports;a=tree;f=www/apache2 >> > >> > I'm AFK until Sunday, so that's the best I can do right now. >> >> I'll continue to include subversion-apache2 in my releases until apache2 >> is actually removed (if ever). I've confirmed I can build subversion >> without apache2 and can do some testing of the http client with a native >> apache2/subversion server, so I'm good to go either way. If apache2 is >> ever removed, just remove subversion-apache2 as well and I'll adjust on >> my next release. > >I'm not going to remove anything until this is settled. > >It's just sad that almost every time we need a package maintainer, it's >Yaakov who has to step up. Yaakov is an excellent package maintainer >but there's only so much a single person can do and Yaakov already >maintains hundreds of packages. > >If there's anybody here who would like to contribute to this project, >please give the idea to maintain a Cygwin package a whirl. Especially >taking over maintainership of an orphaned package would be very helpful >for the community as a whole. > >For a start, see http://cygwin.com/setup.html and the "ORPHANED" packages >in the text file http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
Corinna forgot to mention that, if you pick up an orphaned package, you get a big gold star at http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ . It's hard to imagine why that, in itself, isn't adequate motiviation for anyone. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
