Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Even that kind of minimal effort is probably not worth it and provides a false sense of an active project capable of patching security vulnerabilities and so on.



> false sense of an active project capable of patching security vulnerabilities and so on

Development seems active. Last MR/PR merged in was 2 days ago[1]. Isn't all that's lacking is someone to pack changes into a tarball and call it a release?

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests?...


> someone to pack changes into a tarball and call it a release

Can't this be automated?


Please go right ahead...


I would, but I have zero skills in bash and in make and rather low skills in C. Aren't these the technologies used here?

I doubt people would appreciate if I wrote them build scripts in Scala ;-)


As the Brits say, "Good man!".

Meaning, you just volunteered.




Consider applying for YC's W25 batch! Applications are open till Nov 12.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: