Re: [savannah-help-public] Google Code will be no more at 2016-01-25

[Werner LEMBERG]

>     Patches are always welcomed, but I do not know if anyone is
>     interested in hacking on the current php code to add such a
>     feature.
> 
> Right, I'm not exactly "interested", but if that single feature
> makes the difference between lilypond moving to savannah or
> <somewhere>, I'd at least try to look at it.

I would be glad if we could use Savannah since I don't like github's
workflow very much.  BTW, while github is able to display images, you
can't have any non-image attachments, which is very annoying.

> Of course it would be great if someone from lilypond was willing.

It seems that FusionForge (the successor of Savane) is written in PHP,
which is unfortunately a programming language I don't know at all...

> Does google do anything to filter out virus-y images?  Since they
> are so commonly used as a carrier for bad things.  I'm not sure how
> to even begin on that problem.  And spammers signing up for savannah
> is a known and continuing problem.

My suggestion is to use netpbm programs to filter everything, e.g.

  jpegtopnm < input.jpg | pnmtojpeg > output.jpg
  pngtopnm < input.png | pnmtopng > output.png

(with some sensible command line options).  This should ensure that
the images are not malformed.

> I gather lilypond wants a web interface, not a mail interface,
> though?

Yes, I think so.


    Werner