Re: [PATCH] gnulib: import getline

[Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 02 May 2021 18:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 11:12:34 -0400
> > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > > > and sf.net/p/mingw hasn't been updated in almost a decade.
> > > 
> > > That's a stale URL.  The up-to-date one is here:
> > > 
> > >   https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/releases/
> > > 
> > > The latest release was on April 12.
> > 
> > the project needs to get its act together then and setup redirects.  the
> > SF page is the top search results and people are still going there, and
> > it's seeing tons of downloads per week from it.
> 
> The first line of https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ says:
> 
>   This project is in the process of moving to osdn.net/projects/mingw,
>   you can continue to follow us there.

text easily lost in the overall noise of that one page.

their homepage isn't set.
their wiki link goes to the dead domain.
their support page goes to the old trackers or the dead domain.
their releases page has no readme info.
their news page has no info.

they're clearly half-assing and/or understaffed.  normal for open source,
but i don't think anyone should be surprised when users think mingw hasn't
been updated in ages, and why mingw64 was forked and has since become the
more canonical implementation.
-mike