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Re: Apps maintainer -- do you want your name/email address in a public place


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >If we are just going to push everything via cygwin@cygwin.com, I see
no
> >point having a 'email' field.
>
> I guess it would be up to the package maintainer to suggest what the
> appropriate mail address would be.  I'm not sure that I'd be happy
> seeing cygwin users cropping up in gdb@sources.redhat.com.

I think the package maintainer _and_ the package vendor need to agree
and set this. If the vendor isn't consulted, then cygwin@cygwin.com is
the happy default.

> However, I think that in the majority of cases cygwin@cygwin is the
> correct place to post bugs.  It's like in the gcc mailing list when
> someone reports a problem with gcc 2.96.47 from Red Hat 7.2.  The
> response is always "Talk to Red Hat".

Agreed.


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