On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:08:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> - cygwin-developers discusses if the package should become part of >> the distro and chooses a person from cygwin-developers as approver. > >Nope. I don't think this is appropriate. cygwin-developers is for >developers of cygwin1.dll. Last I heard, Linus has no input into what >Redhat put into the (say) the RawHide distro, so why should the >cygwin1.dll developers care what goes into 'cygwin the net >distribution'.
Yep. >I think we should either get a consensus from all the package >maintainers, or perhaps, wait 3 days for objections. If no objections, >then the package is allowed in. If there are objections, discuss until >resolved. To prevent deadlock, a single individual objecting will not >cause a package to be rejected, the objections must be agreed with by >other package maintainers. As long as I get veto power or whatever the opposite of veto power, that's fine with me. I'm not exactly Linus in this situation, I guess. I'm not sure that we really need to be this formal, though. Who's going to be doing the tracking? Once again, it sounds like another job for a script. :-) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/