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Re: [ITP] amanda 3.3.2
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.
Message through now - thanks to Marco for being helpful.
>
> cgf
>
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