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Re: Small change to Package Contributor's Guide?


On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:37:28AM -0400, Bob Heckel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>To keep new or less active maintainers (such as myself) from accidentally
>embarrassing themselves with post-upload announcement email subject
>lines containing "[ANNOUNCEMENT][ANNOUNCEMENT]", is there any interest
>in making this edit, or a variation of it, to setup.html?:
>
>old:
>----
>  Once sent, your message will be reviewed by one of the cygwin-announce
>  moderators and, once approved, will be automatically forwarded to the
>  cygwin mailing list with an [ANNOUNCEMENT] prepended to the subject.
>
>new:
>----
>  Once sent, your message will be reviewed by one of the cygwin-announce
>  moderators and, once approved, will be automatically forwarded to the
>  cygwin mailing list. Unlike other announcement subject lines that may
>  start with "[RFU], [ITP]", etc. do not prepend this announcement with
>  "[ANNOUNCEMENT]".

I don't see what was unclear about the old wording.  Your proposed wording
implies that announcement messages begin with [RFU] or [ITP] and that is
not accurate.  That's what shows up in cygwin-apps messages.

cygwin-apps != cygwin-announce

cgf


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