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Re: How to get upload rights for existing packages


On Feb  1 05:21, Michael Feher wrote:
> On 29.01.2016 10:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Federico updated task the last time in March 2015. He may still be around,
> >so let's give him a nudge. Federico, ping? Corinna
> 
> The request was not really about replacing Federico. He is one of the
> original authors of taskwarrior and they have asked on their homepage for
> support with the update of the cygwin package. Therefore I have contacted
> them and got from Federico the instructions how to package taskwarrior for
> cygwin.
> 
> Now i have the ready packages and it is that either Federico has to upload
> the packages to cygwin which is to my understanding not perfectly correct as
> he is not the original creator of the package or I upload the packages by
> myself.
> 
> I personally would prefer if Federico could still be kept as a package
> maintainer and I could just be added but I do not know if this is possible.

This is not quite how it works.  The maintainer has upload permissions
using his/her ssh key.  You only get to do that if you become package
maintainer.  See https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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