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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote:

> Hugh Sasse schrieb:
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
        [...]
> > set?  Were I in this position, I'd rather not have to trawl the mail
> > archives.  That's the only mechanism suggested at
> > <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
        [...]
> > Would you accept patches to the contrib page that suggested the use
> > of the existing bugzilla as a resource?  If so, then I'd like to add a table
> > of contents and re-order things a bit as well.
> > 
> > > is going to change that or convince a small team of busy developers to
> > > do your bidding.
> 
> We already have the setup bugzilla in operation.
> I am responsible for incoming tickets, most of them are spam, and trigger the
> developers if there's some update.
> 
> It's additional work and in most of the cases not needed, but in some cases it
> might be useful.

So would you prefer that I NOT suggest a patch to 
    <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
to draw people's attention to the existing Bugzilla?

Else, if you'd like a patch, to whom should I send it?
> 
> The current -p patch is at
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6688
> 
> The name selection filter suggestion not yet.
> 
> And it would be good if the setup.exe suggestion/reports would be posted to
> the right list, which is cygwin-apps, not cygwin!

I could try and work something in to a patch for contrib.html
about that, if it is desired.

> I rather tend to ignore it here.

Understandably.
        Thank you
        Hugh
        

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