On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Jon Ciesla <limb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Jon Ciesla wrote: >>>> "Jon Ciesla" <limb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>>> (Yes, I know libjpeg upstream is kinda moribund, but if you want new >>>>>> features in it you should be trying to revive upstream development, >>>>>> not strongarm the Fedora package maintainer to take over >>>>>> development.) >>>>> I agree strongly with that principle. Two questions: >>>>> A. What has been done thusfar WTR reviving upstream development? >>>> Well, at one point I had more or less formally blessed Guido Vollbeding >>>> as the new lead maintainer, but if he's actually put out a release I >>>> haven't heard about it :-(. You could try bugging the people >>>> associated >>>> with the sourceforge libjpeg project. >>> >>> CCing them. libjpeg SourceForge team, what is the current status of >>> libjpeg development? >> >> Jon, >> >> I have heard nothing in some time from Guido, and I'm not aware of him >> producing any sort of libjpeg release. >> >> I find the situation somewhat frustrating. > > Agreed. So what's next? Is there a plan for further action, a new > primary maintainer, etc? There was a fork on freedesktop.org for a while that was eventually removed because the new maintainers were unresponsive. http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/project-libjpeg-shutdown If you could convince them that you would actually maintain it, they might be receptive to reviving it. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
