Re: [HEADSUP] New github organization "cygwin"

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Mar 17 11:04, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-03-17 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >today I claimed the "cygwin" name at github.com.  If you have some funny
> >project which is using Cygwin in the first place, and you want to do
> >that under the "cygwin" cover, feel free to drop us a mail here on
> >cygwin-apps and we add you as member.  You can then create your own git
> >repo under this hood if you like.  It should just be closely related to
> >Cygwin.
> 
> cygwinports is an organization on github as well.  It may make sense to
> leave packaging in cygwinports and original code in cygwin, since the repo
> names may otherwise conflict.

Sure.  Cygwinports purpose is to provide ports of existing OSS projects.
The idea for "cygwin" is to be used for cygwin-specific project repos.
E. g., some nifty scripting which only makes sense in a Cygwin environment
might find a nice home there.


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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