Please *wait* before sending cygwin-announce messages
Reini Urban
rurban@x-ray.at
Thu Dec 8 14:41:00 GMT 2005
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> I've noticed a new trend recently with package maintainers sending their
> cygwin-announce messages before they have been notified that the package
> has been uploaded.
>
> Please don't do that.
Sorry, will not happen again.
> Please *do* send your upload announcements here, but just the raw facts,
> please, no descriptions of why you are updating or what the new features
> are. Just URLs are all that is required.
>
> IF the package has subdirectores and if you can duplicate the layout of
> the release directory where the package resides that would be useful
> too. It means that we can just use wget to download the package
> directly.
>
> When someone informs you that the package has been updated, *then* send
> an announcement to cygwin-announce. As always make sure that you
> include details about how to unsubscribe in your message.
--
Reini
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