On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:59:11PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: >On 2003-11-17T11:51-0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >) On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: >) > If anyone *would* prefer to have an online form to generate the message to >) > cygwin-apps (and possibly the message to cygwin-announce once the update has >) > been accepted), that's certainly something I can look into as well. > >Well, I hammered something out last night and came up with >http://shell.n.ml.org/n/cygwin-apps/ > >It tries to confirm all package-specific information (pulling defaults from >setup.ini), and will craft compatible messages for new package proposals, >updates to new vendor versions, corrections for broken packages, or >announcements to cygwin-announce. > >It does not do anything but help you construct an email; the first three >types go to cygwin-apps and can be processed by the extractor script, and >the latter goes to cygwin-announce and is similar to recent messages. The >From:, To:, and Subject: are configurable. > >This is just a proof of concept, but should be usable for the time being.
Looks pretty cool. cgf