Thanks Marco. I had subscribed to this list and attempted to post an ITP there, however I have received no answer and the posts don't go through. I've also tried the list owner to no avail.
Thanks for the comment on category. I will fix that. I changed it as a suggestion thinking to ask about it. Cheers, Mark. On 06/09/2012, at 8:21 PM, marco atzeri <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
