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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated package xxx
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:23:05 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated package xxx
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, zzapper wrote:
> Hi,
Hi. About your subject: I don't think we have any p0rn-related packaes in
Cygwin... Unless you're talking about "fortune" and/or the proposed
"hippos in tutus" picture collection...
> Like many Cygwin users I often become aware that an application is
> available (or am reminded that it exists) in Cygwin when it appears as
> Update in the NG. I believe in any case that an update announcement is a
> marvellous opportunity for maintainers to publicise their application
> and further the cause of Cygwin and *nix in general.
FWIW, I've advocated making Cygwin-specific READMEs available online for
the packages that have them... Those should contain a link to the
canonical package homepage.
> It seems that maintainers use some kind of template for these
> announcements
The template is previous announcements by other maintainers, actually...
> could it be possible for maintainers to agree to always provide a link
> to the relevant doc?
They already do -- in the Cygwin-specific package README. If you want to
maintain a web site that simply makes available the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin
README files for all packages, and report the statistics of how often
people access those, the keepers of sourceware.org may be convinced to
make the READMEs available.
Igor
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