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 > > -- > 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 > -- 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
