Re: Cygwin Mailing Lists Disabled? Blocking Package Uploads?

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2022-10-02 05:20, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 02/10/2022 08:23, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Tried uploading package cpuid with and without LICENSE.
>> Neither seems to work (checked master setup.ini).
> 
> It seems like I broke calm when I updated it a couple of days ago. :(
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> I've repaired it, and your upload seems to have succeeded.

Thanks Jon,

>> Also I don't seem to be able to get on to any mailing list interface 
>> to re-enable email to perhaps check status via email in public inbox.
> 
> I don't understand what this means.

Email retries are often visible under Sourceware Public Inbox e.g.

https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/202209252042.28PJfcQU021984-28PKg7eC017324@mx1.webnames.ca/T/#u

and I am now also monitoring the Cygwin lists via Atom Feeds in Chromium 
Foxish RSS/Atom Feed reader extension.

>> Has the Cygwin mailing lists being disabled now blocking package uploads?
> 
> No.
> 
>> Can someone please see if they can have a look and give me some hints 
>> via DM.
>>
>> Are there any other ways I can see any issues with package uploads?
> 
> If your ISP is blocking email from sourceware, I can only suggest 
> getting a free webmail from somewhere else, and arranging for upload 
> reports be sent there as well (see [1]).

Thanks for that reminder, I've added Direct ISP and Gmail - hopefully 
one succeeds!

> I'd did think that it would be nice to add a "recent uploads" report to 
> the web pages, but I'm unlikely to have any time to work on that.
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html#reports

Any chance of maybe just appending to an mbox cleared after 24 hours old?

P.S.
I keep having to comment out LICENSE after updates to the latest SPDX 
keys, as it seems to block uploads!
What are you using to validate licences in calm - PyPi spdx-tools?

Finally, do you have any advice on what to do about various US Public 
Domain sources like tz{code,data} about which SPDX.org is still having 
discussions?
I have submitted input asking them to add a tz/tzdb/zoneinfo PD licence 
instance, and/or also something for other generic US.gov PD sources, 
like they currently have for NIST, CC, Open Data Commons, Sax, and 
libselinux.
But they closed an issue from a US.gov entity asking for a generic 
US.gov PD licence for their documents!

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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