Trusted maintainer policy notes (draft for discussion) (was Re: [ATTN maintainer] libunistring 1.3 needed)

[Marco Atzeri]

On 24/01/2026 16:31, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 10/01/2026 12:54, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 10/01/2026 04:51, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 09/01/2026 23:59, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> With no response to this previous request, for a requirement to 
>>>> build gettext under CI, and a new release 1.4.1 available upstream, 
>>>> would anyone have an issue
>>>> with my releasing an NMU?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not at all.
>>>
>>>> With NMU perms, can I push to libunistring main branch and deploy?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No idea.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> This probably needs better documenting, but for the moment [1].
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2023-May/042910.html
> 
> 
> I've summarized that email, along with a few others on a similar subject 
> I've written, and given it a home at [1], in an effort to capture the 
> kind of process I try to follow (most of the time).
> 
> Please say if there's anything shocking, obviously missing or wrong 
> there! Or if you have any comments, generally.
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging/trusted-maintainer-policy-manual.html
> 

it looks fine for me.

Only question about Alphabetic order, which one ?
Today it seems an almost ASCII order where Uppercase and Lowercase
are all considered Uppercase.

If I do a "sort" (LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8) and compare

@@@ -4136,8 +4137,8 @@
  xtrans                                       @xorg
  xvidcore                                     Takashi Yano
  xwd                                          @xorg
-xwin-xdg-menu                                Jon Turney
  xwininfo                                     @xorg
+xwin-xdg-menu                                Jon Turney
  xwud                                         @xorg
  xxdiff                                       ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
  xxhash                                       Marco Atzeri


the position of "-" and "_" seems different depending on the Local used