approval procedure

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Could someone direct me to a e-mail archive URL or web page that
> describes the approval procedure for packages?

Umm, I don't recall the exact link, but I can summarize it here.
I suppose this information should be part of
<http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting>...

> I understand there are three votes needed and a review of some kind.

Yes.

> Who is eligible to vote and who is eligible to review?

The current maintainers are eligible to vote.  Anyone is eligible to do a
review (other than the person proposing the package, except in some
special cases).
	Igor
P.S. FYI, he package proposal messages usually have "ITP" in the subject
(see <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#ITP>).
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