Announcements & uploads

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:15:59PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was just wondering: as cygwin-announce is a montitered list anyway, is
> it necessary to wait until the uploads are done and confirmed on
> cygwin-apps before sending the cygwin-announce message, or can the two be
> done at the same time?
> 
> The one that does the uploading to Sourceware could let the message to
> cygwin-announce pass when the uploading is done. That way, the package
> maintainer wouldn't have to watch the cygwin-apps list before sending the
> announcement..

The one uploading is not necessarily able to approve cygwin-announce
postings.

> As all of us have little time and some of us have timezone problems this
> way of doing things might help a (very) little bit.

That's actually not a problem.  If it takes you 12 hours to come around
reading cygwin-apps... so it takes some mirrors to mirror cygwin.com.
Just send the message within 24 hours or so.

Corinna

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