We need a community effort to maintain unmaintained dub packages, suggestions

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 28 16:03:12 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 16:02:08 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/eltjzwmedvllezyfavhv@forum.dlang.org
>
> On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 17:10:27 UTC, mw wrote:
>> On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 07:27:50 UTC, Luis wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Right, people forked & fixed, but the fix cannot be 
>> contributed back to the D community.
>>
>> Other users are still getting the original buggy version from 
>> dub, and don't have an easy way to find new patches.
>>
>> So the main blocker is to get the write permission (of the 
>> unmaintained packages) of the dub system, this will solve lots 
>> of these problems.
>>
>> Or we should setup a new policy that any new dub packages 
>> should give write permission to dlang-community by default.
>
> This ^

Oops, didn't mean to create a new thread 😁


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