Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/14/17:44:01
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:08:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>> - cygwin-developers discusses if the package should become part of
>> the distro and chooses a person from cygwin-developers as approver.
>
>Nope. I don't think this is appropriate. cygwin-developers is for
>developers of cygwin1.dll. Last I heard, Linus has no input into what
>Redhat put into the (say) the RawHide distro, so why should the
>cygwin1.dll developers care what goes into 'cygwin the net
>distribution'.
Yep.
>I think we should either get a consensus from all the package
>maintainers, or perhaps, wait 3 days for objections. If no objections,
>then the package is allowed in. If there are objections, discuss until
>resolved. To prevent deadlock, a single individual objecting will not
>cause a package to be rejected, the objections must be agreed with by
>other package maintainers.
As long as I get veto power or whatever the opposite of veto power,
that's fine with me. I'm not exactly Linus in this situation, I guess.
I'm not sure that we really need to be this formal, though. Who's going
to be doing the tracking?
Once again, it sounds like another job for a script. :-)
cgf
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -