Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:45:02 -0400
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:34:02AM +1000, Mark O'Keefe wrote:
>
>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.

Yeah, saw your complaint to cygwin-apps.

Your professed inability to send email to cygwin-apps does not imply
"there might need to be some updates to the website to reflect the
correct process".

Anyway, now that you are sending email to the right place, lets close
this thread.

cgf

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