Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

[Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>]

Hugh Sasse schrieb:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>> Hugh Sasse schrieb:
>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>         [...]
>>> set?  Were I in this position, I'd rather not have to trawl the mail
>>> archives.  That's the only mechanism suggested at
>>> <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
>         [...]
>>> Would you accept patches to the contrib page that suggested the use
>>> of the existing bugzilla as a resource?  If so, then I'd like to add a table
>>> of contents and re-order things a bit as well.
>>>
>>>> is going to change that or convince a small team of busy developers to
>>>> do your bidding.
>> We already have the setup bugzilla in operation.
>> I am responsible for incoming tickets, most of them are spam, and trigger the
>> developers if there's some update.
>>
>> It's additional work and in most of the cases not needed, but in some cases it
>> might be useful.
> 
> So would you prefer that I NOT suggest a patch to 
>     <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
> to draw people's attention to the existing Bugzilla?

The bugzilla is just an internal tool for the developers.
We don't need additional attention there.
The proper proposal and discussion is via the cygwin-apps@ list.

Anecdote: perl5 and postgresql development still works only via 
discussion and patches to the mailinglists. There's no tracker
at all.

> Else, if you'd like a patch, to whom should I send it?

As explained in the contrib guideline. To cygwin-apps@ of course.

>> The current -p patch is at
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6688
>>
>> The name selection filter suggestion not yet.
>>
>> And it would be good if the setup.exe suggestion/reports would be posted to
>> the right list, which is cygwin-apps, not cygwin!
> 
> I could try and work something in to a patch for contrib.html
> about that, if it is desired.
> 
>> I rather tend to ignore it here.

Followup set to -apps
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Reini Urban
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