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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:48:31 -0400
To: Edward Peschko <esp5 AT pge DOT com>, Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
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At 08:44 PM 10/13/2003, Edward Peschko you wrote:
>> >Fair enough, but you *can* 'pre' approve entrance to the developer's list. 
>> >Remember, you try to subscribe and you get asked four questions?
>> 
>> 
>> You don't need to be on the Cygwin developers list to create patches
>> for Cygwin or play around with the code.  Patches can be submitted either
>> to cygwin-patches (preferred) or this list (not so much but tolerated).
>> You should target cygwin-patches for something like what you're interested
>> in doing.  
>
>that's just odd. ok, well that's just not the way I'm used to doing things.
>On perl5-porters, more than half the discussion is about the merits of 
>patches and the submission of patches. 


That happens at cygwin-patches here.  Different project, different lists.



>And anyways, don't you need to sign some sort of attribution of your source code over
>to the cygwin group? Or is that integrated into cygwin-patches? And what about 
>submissions to folders outside of winsup? Is there a centralized place to submit these?


Time to head back to the documentation.  See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>



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