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Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:27:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0403271502550.18236@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Is the ITP moratorium declared in
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html> still in effect?
Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear.
I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the
distribution, however.
Possibly we need a gdb packages steering committee which decides on
these things. It could have rules like "a package needs a simple
majority vote to be a candidate for inclusion". I'd envision seven
people on the committee. I have names in mind but the only two
definites are really Corinna and me, both of whom would also have veto
power.
I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be
included, remembering that we have a "software" web page at cygwin.com
which can be used to advertise packages that aren't quite up to snuff
for the cygwin release. I think we have accepted a couple of packages here
which really only deserve to be advertised on the web site.
cgf