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Subject:	Re: [ITP] amanda 3.3.2
From:	"Mark O'Keefe" <mark_okeefe AT mac DOT com>
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Date:	Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:34:02 +1000
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On 07/09/2012, at 5:12 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:58:25PM +1000, Mark O'Keefe wrote:
>> 
>> On 06/09/2012, at 12:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/5/2012 12:19 AM, Mark O'Keefe wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I had tried posting this to the cygwin-apps list, but it would appear
>>>> that  maybe I can't do that. So I'll post it hear for comment.
>>> 
>>> From <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>:
>>> 
>>> cygwin-apps: a subscriber-only list for discussing packaging issues
>>> regarding applications that are distributed with the Cygwin DLL.  If
>>> you are maintaining or volunteering to maintain one of the packages
>>> that is distributed with the Cygwin net releases you should be
>>> subscribed to this list.
>> 
>> From <http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting>
>> 
>> Submitting a new package:
>> So you've got a package you want to submit.  Follow the following
>> checklist before emailing the cygwin-apps mailing list and you'll
>> almost certainly save time.
>> 
>> Propose on the cygwin-apps mailing list that you are interested in
>> becoming a package maintainer for package "foo" using a subject like
>> "[ITP] foo 0.10".  Some packages cannot be distributed via Cygwin's
>> setup due to vendor licence limitations.  Other packages may not be
>> appropriate for Cygwin.  This step will save time if, for some reason,
>> we cannot accept the package.
>> 
>> So, you might appreciate why I was confused thinking that I should
>> email the cygwin-apps list.  I read (later) that it was a
>> subscriber-only list and emailed to this list instead.  I'm guessing
>> that there might need to be some updates to the website to reflect the
>> correct process.
> 
> I'm not sure what your confusion is but both of the above tell you to
> send intent-to-package announcements to cygwin-apps.  One says "propose
> on the cygwin-apps mailing list".  The other says for "maintaining or
> *volunteering to maintain*".

I posted to that list and got zip.  No messages got through.  No response
from the list owner.  So the confusion was that it says to post there, but I was
not able to do so.  I was subscribed to the list and getting messages others
sent to it.

Message through now - thanks to Marco for being helpful.

> 
> cgf
> 
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