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Re: package submission policy
- From: Schulman dot Andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov
- To: Cygwin List <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:34:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: package submission policy
Thanks, this is helpful.
Larry Hall <cygwin-apps-lh>
05/17/2005 03:26 PM
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Re: package submission policy
At 11:41 AM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>I'm looking at the revised package submission policy
>(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00384.html). Question:
>who gets to vote for packages? All current Cygwin package maintainers?
Yes. Of course, if the package is already in one of the major
distributions,
it automatically clears the # of votes hurdle.
>Do maintainers get to vote against a package, decreasing its score by 1?
>Just curious.
Vetoes are possible but only from Corinna and Chris. There's been no
rule for voting against a package AFAIR. But if there is a reason to
bar the package, that can be brought up by anybody and the issue is
discussed. If it's an important issue, that alone can disqualify a
package. Take the recently discussed 'bsdiff' package. It hasn't passed
muster because of a licensing incompatibility. Regardless of the number
of votes, things like this can stop a package entry until or unless it's
corrected.
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