cygwin-announce configuration change
Takashi Yano
takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Sat Sep 23 12:32:44 GMT 2023
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:36:03 +0100
Jon Turney wrote:
> On 21/09/2023 15:54, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On 21/09/2023 15:46, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>
> >> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing
> >> list to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
> >>
> >> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
> >> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us
> >> from adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe
> >> instructions, so we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it
> >> manually), and no-one seems to know why we're doing it.
> >>
> >> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future,
> >> please consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or
> >> reading it via news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via
> >> the various protocols that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
> >
> > Maintainers,
> >
> > Following this change, I intend to adjust the configuration for the
> > cygwin-announce list so it automatically appends the footer suggested in
> > [1] (so you will no longer need to append it manually, if you are
>
> This is done (with an updated version of that footer which contains
> correct, rather than outdated instructions).
>
> > currently in the minority remembering to doing so :) ).
> >
> > I'll also amend those instructions to remove that suggestion.
> >
> > [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html#announcement
It seems that announcement is no longer received even by
cygwin-announce@cygwin.com now.
I sent a few announcements to cygwin-announce@cygwin.com, however,
none of them did not appear in
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2023-September/thread.html
Am I overlooking something?
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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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