Please *wait* before sending cygwin-announce messages

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Dec 8 01:26:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:10:06PM -0800, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> Please *do* send your upload announcements here, but just the raw facts,
>> [snip]
>>
>> Let me see if I am reading this correctly:
>>
>> When sending a message to cygwin-announce,
> 
> "here" == cygwin-apps, not cygwin-announce.
> 
> To summarize, the steps are:
> 
> 1) send an upload announcement here (cygwin-apps) with just the bare facts
> required to get the packages onto sourceware.
> 
> 2) someone says "Done", indicating that the packages have been uploaded.
> 
> 3) you, having waited patiently here (cygwin-apps) for notice that your packages
> are now uploaded to sourceware.org then immediately send out an announcement
> to cygwin-announce (there).  Said announcement should contain unsubscribe details.

Ah ha, that's it (the here being cygwin-apps), thanks for the clarification.

Harold



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