Homebrew packages for OS X updated for 2.7.0

Vincent Ladeuil v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr
Tue Feb 23 20:20:48 UTC 2016


>>>>> Richard Wilbur <richard.wilbur at gmail.com> writes:

    > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Fred McCann <fred at sharpnoodles.com> wrote:
    > [...]

<snip/>

    > I'm creating a list of plugins that have been specifically
    > orphaned (previous maintainer asked for someone to take over).  It
    > seems to me that if no willing person steps up to adopt them, we
    > could consider putting them under the auspices of the bzr-core
    > team, 

The best fit would be https://launchpad.net/~bzr

    > or some such, which would lend more flexibility in authorizing
    > maintenance and releases.

Exactly.

    >> There has been discussions about that, but it's up to the project owners
    >> to do so. I know that in some cases, copyright issues were raised and
    >> blocked the process.

    > I wonder how hard those issues would be to resolve--especially for
    > the orphans?

The issue arise if the copyright have to change (a plugin merged into
core), there is no issue for the orphans if their copyright stay the
same.

        Vincent
        



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