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Re: And one more package, astyle Re: New Package: doxygen-1.2.17


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:55:12AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > The Cygwin net distro isn't sort of a one man show, it's a community
> > effort.  It's not Chris and me who are the responsible people for
> > reviewing a package and we are not the only people with the right
> > to upload packages.
> 
> This is one of the reasons I think that it might be better to:
> 
> 1) Maintainers only approve the setup.hint file.
> 2) Upload the new package as test or new and let the Cygwin community as
> a whole have a say in the package configuration.
>    a) Use cygwin.com for voting for the package with comments area and
> the form is mailed to cygwin@cygwin.com.
>    b) The package maintainer has two weeks to work the issues discussed
> on the cygwin@cygwin.com page.

Counting from when?  The occurence of the first bug report or the
first wild complain?  Who will check if it's one or the other?  And
who plays the keeper of the rules?

>    c) If the issues aren't fixed the package is pulled.
> 3) Once x count votes of approval the setup.hint can be adjusted to
> remove the test/new classification.
>    a) base x on some percentage of the cygwin community population
> count.
>    b) or base x on some flat number.

Since already on cygwin-apps (assumed to be the most "active" part of
the community) only a few people actually care, how do you think that
will work on cygwin?  99.999% of the people will not even get that
there is some sort of voting scheme.  They will tell you that the new
foobaz package doesn't work on their B20, though...

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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