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Re: RFD: Adding ability for maintainers to upload their own packages

From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:24:49 -0500
Subject: Re: RFD: Adding ability for maintainers to upload their own packages
References: <20080219223139.GA9759@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

Christopher Faylor wrote:

Please send comments here. Is this a positive thing?

I think it's brilliant!

Are there other
things that could be done in this scenario?

lint-checking the setup.hint, and emailing a failure notice to the maintainer-of-record? That'd be a lot better than *you* getting spammed with error messages just because *I* screw up.

--
Chuck

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