Where is yaws?

[Christopher Meng]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 14:58 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to know why yaws was retired as it's a Web server still being
>> used by many people, can someone tell me what happened there in the
>> past?
>>
>> I feel unaccountably unhappy when I see that almost other major
>> distributions ship it still with the latest 1.99 version however I can
>> only install yaws in EPEL7 only with a dated 1.98 version.
>
> Well, noone volunteered to maintain it?
>
> I sort of needed it for EPEL until a couple of months ago so I kept it
> alive until recently where another volunteer picked it up.
>
> If you need it outside of EPEL free to re-add it I guess? The EPEL
> package should work fine with Fedora and I think update to 1.99 will be
> just a minimal effort. I'll review it for you if you file a review
> request.

Be grateful to see that it's still alive in EPEL channel, with an
elder version though. I just wandered in the VZ systems and then found
yaws is no longer available for Fedora users, that'd be unhandy for
deploying packages.

I will submit review requests later as I'm still out of time.

Thanks!