cygwin-announce configuration change
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Sep 23 12:41:44 GMT 2023
On 23/09/2023 13:32, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:36:03 +0100
> Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 21/09/2023 15:54, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 21/09/2023 15:46, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing
>>>> list to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
>>>>
>>>> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
>>>> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us
>>>> from adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe
>>>> instructions, so we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it
>>>> manually), and no-one seems to know why we're doing it.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future,
>>>> please consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or
>>>> reading it via news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via
>>>> the various protocols that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
>>>
>>> Maintainers,
>>>
>>> Following this change, I intend to adjust the configuration for the
>>> cygwin-announce list so it automatically appends the footer suggested in
>>> [1] (so you will no longer need to append it manually, if you are
>>
>> This is done (with an updated version of that footer which contains
>> correct, rather than outdated instructions).
>>
>>> currently in the minority remembering to doing so :) ).
>>>
>>> I'll also amend those instructions to remove that suggestion.
>>>
>>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html#announcement
>
> It seems that announcement is no longer received even by
> cygwin-announce-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org now.
>
> I sent a few announcements to cygwin-announce-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, however,
> none of them did not appear in
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2023-September/thread.html
>
> Am I overlooking something?
It seems like your auto-approve status got turned off (perhaps because
you subscribed to the list?)
I have approved the announcements which were held for moderation.
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