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Re: [ITP] amanda 3.3.2


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 <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> 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
> 


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