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*". cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
