Bug#984736:

[Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>]

Hi Brian,

On 24.04.21 00:51, Brian Thompson wrote:
>> Ideally a maintainer willing to help cron move forward would support the next
>> major task to be done: moving the Debian-specific patches into cronie and 
>> providing an updated package for cronie replacement that can eventually
>> replace cron.>
> I’d like to help out here if no one else has responded.  I can read
> repositories on Salsa but don’t have an account there yet since I’m not
> officially a part of the Debian org.

Anyone can create an account on Salsa -- in fact, contributing there is
usually the first step towards becoming an official member.

Once you have an account, there are multiple ways one can contribute,
eg: using a fork and filing merge requests, or eventually directly
commit to the repository.

The Debian Mentors page is usually a good starting point for the
available documentation:

    https://mentors.debian.net/

>>Please contact the current maintainer if you can help in maintaining and
>>improving cron.
> 
> @Javier, I cc’ed you and I think what is Christian’s email which I
> pulled from the cron git history.

I am no longer a maintainer of cron. I am, however, still the maintainer
of closely related cronie, which should probably succeed cron at some
point (given much better upstream support).

I'm not actively maintaining that one either, hence I have requested an
adopter (#974038). I would be willing to assist (withing reason) anyone
interested in taking over that one.

Best,
Christian