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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic announcement generation by calm
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On Jan  7 16:12, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> This is an experimental facility, currently only available for packages
> deployed from the build service [1] (that is, not for self-built packages
> uploaded with 'cygport up' via sftp)
> 
> When the token "announce" is present for a build job (in addition to
> "deploy"), after a successful deploy, calm will automatically generate and
> send an announce email.
> 
> The mail follows a similar format to that generated by "cygport announce",
> containing a list of packages and the description, with the following
> addition:
> 
> * If the cygport defines the variable "ANNOUNCE", it's evaluated contents
> will be appended to the generated mail.
> 
> * Otherwise, if the source package contains an ANNOUNCE file [2], it's
> contents will be appended.
> 
> * Otherwise, if the source package contains a README or ${PN}.README file,
> lines that look like part of a changelog, between one starting with '----
> ${PVR}' and the next starting '----', will be extracted and appended
> 
> (None of these seem like a particularly great way of doing things, but they
> match some historical patterns.  As always, suggestions about improvements
> are welcome.)
> 
> 
> In accordance with our long-standing policy of treating maintainer email
> addresses as private information, the mail is sent from cygwin-no-reply and
> bcc'ed to the uploader.
> 
> 
> For testing purposes, if the token "mock" (yes, I am running out of synonyms
> for "test"...) is also present, the mail will be only sent to the uploader,
> not the announce list.
> 
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging/build.html
> [2] Note that this isn't currently part of the default value of CYGWIN_FILES
> [3], so needs to be explicitly listed there to be included in the source
> package
> [3] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/src_prep_cygpart.html#CYGWIN_FILES

:+1:

Unfortunately I started the OpenSSH 9.6 build before reading this here,
but that's some great addition.

Corinna