Re: package submission policy

[Schulman dot Andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov]

Thanks, this is helpful.




Larry Hall <cygwin-apps-lh> 
05/17/2005 03:26 PM
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Re: package submission policy






At 11:41 AM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>I'm looking at the revised package submission policy 
>(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00384.html).  Question: 
>who gets to vote for packages?  All current Cygwin package maintainers? 


Yes.  Of course, if the package is already in one of the major 
distributions,
it automatically clears the # of votes hurdle.



>Do maintainers get to vote against a package, decreasing its score by 1? 
>Just curious.


Vetoes are possible but only from Corinna and Chris.  There's been no 
rule for voting against a package AFAIR.  But if there is a reason to 
bar the package, that can be brought up by anybody and the issue is 
discussed.  If it's an important issue, that alone can disqualify a 
package.  Take the recently discussed 'bsdiff' package.  It hasn't passed 
muster because of a licensing incompatibility.  Regardless of the number 
of votes, things like this can stop a package entry until or unless it's 
corrected. 


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