On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:19:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up >> > for adoption" (or "orphaned") flag. >> Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you >> install an orphaned package - something like "The package ... is up for >> adoption! Please take a look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how you >> can help out!" >> >> Perhaps add a new category "orphaned" as well, listing all orphaned packages >> and offering to download the source by default.. >> >> JAT.. >> rlc > >Umm, we want to encourage people into adopting packages, not annoy them >into it... Although prepending "Orphaned" to the package sdesc might >not be a bad idea (as well as the new category idea above).
I don't think we need to air our dirty laundry in the setup screens. It will surely generate lots of mailing list traffic if we start adding "Orphaned" to a user-visible screen. Lets just try to drive this ourselves without involving everyone who uses cygwin. cgf