Subject: Re: no more package moratorium?
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Corinna Vinschen" <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Nov 2001 12:19:27 +0100

Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au> writes:

> I think the process for that part should be something like
> 
> sponsor (for new maintainers) or maintainer (2nd package or new
> version
> of existing) places the packages files at a URL.
> They tell someone from <list of maintainers with write access>.
> <someone> uploads to cygwin.com.
> 
> If there is _any_ doubt about the package quality, upload it as
> experimental. Wait 3 weeks, and if there are no bugs reported, then
> edit
> setup.hint to make that new versiom current.
> 
> Thoughts on this?

What about existing packages?  Specifically, it would be grand if
tetex-beta would either get fixed or removed.

Greetings,
Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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