On 9/6/2012 7:58 AM, 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.
If there is a more up-to-date set of instructions on how to contribute to
Cygwin, please re-direct me. I've used cygwin for
years and thought I should take the opportunity to give back to the community
if I can.
cygwin-apps is the right place for ITP.
If you plan to become a package maintainer you must join that
mailing list. Follow-up there please
After you ITP someone of the other maintainers will look on your
proposal, verify your package and give a GTG or suggest some changes
and/or improvement.
The instruction at http://cygwin.com/setup.html
are correct IMHO, so at least the category "Backup"
should be changed. From the instructions:
"Please do not invent a new category without checking with the
cygwin-apps mailing list first. As of this writing, the current
categories are:
Accessibility Admin Archive Audio Base Comm
Database Devel Doc Editors Games Gnome
Graphics Interpreters Libs Mail Math Mingw
Net Perl Python Publishing Science Shells
System Text Utils Web X11"
I guess Archive fit in the Amanda scope.
REgards
Marco
