On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It's fairly obvious that not everyone who makes package available reads
> the cygwin list. That is a problem. If you don't want to read the
> mailing list because the traffic is too high then you shouldn't be a
> package maintainer. This isn't an optional part of maintainership.
> [snip]
> No, it boils down to the fact that package maintainers should consider
> end-user support as part of the responsibility for maintaining packages.
FWIW, a maintainer should be able to get quite a bit of mileage from
reading only the messages that contain the names of their packages in the
subject. I know that many "regulars" on the main Cygwin list would
sometimes put an "Attn: * maintainer" in the subject of their reply (where
"*" is the name of a package), since it's easier than remembering the
exact email address to Cc. But it probably wouldn't be a good idea to
rely on that, either.
Igor
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