I just created a new 'announce' feature branch in cygport git: https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/tree/announce
The new 'announce' command generates an announcement template from the .cygport file based on NAME/VERSION/RELEASE, PKG_NAMES, and DESCRIPTION, to which you can easily add release-specific information, and then sends the message via an SMTP server. Note that this adds dependencies on perl-Authen-SASL, perl-MIME-tools, and perl-Net-SMTP-SSL, and requires several new SMTP_* configuration options in cygport.conf. Feedback and patches welcome. -- Yaakov
