[Savannah-hackers] Re: [CoreTeam]Re: DotGNU Single Login

[tony stanco]

We need to be careful not to discourage people. There is a lot of work to do
and we need a lot of volunteers.

David, perhaps let people start their projects, and DotGNU chooses which
ones it will back later on. We probably don't want to be an overly
hierarchical command and control structure decreeing from above. So let them
work on things and we will have a "beauty contest" once they have made some
progress. That way we don't have to chose the winners at the beginning of
the race. It is easier to know the winners nearer the finish line. We can
make the projects an official GNU/DotGNU then. We need to remember that MOST
of these projects will go nowhere, either because the leaders can't lead, or
that the ideas don't work out once some work is done.

Loic, is it OK to put these projects on Savannah as free software projects,
but that are not yet official GNU projects?



>I am not sure this was handled correctly in that we did not yet actually
>designate a maintainer for this, at least as far as I recall.  However,
such a
>sub-project had been proposed and discussed on the mailing lists for awhile
>now, and presumably someone simply jumped the gun.  Simply put it on hold
for
>now, I need to confirm what the status of this will be and who the actual
>maintainer for this will be.  Richard will of course also have to approve
the
>maintainer before this can be activated.
>
>If there are other DotGNU related things that people jump off on like this
>that you do not know the person is already a maintainer or you are in
doubt,
>please ask about this as well.  It is good that people are so enthusiastic,
>but if this becomes a problem we could simply establish a filtering policy
>where all such DotGNU related Savannah requests need to come from the
steering
>comittee directly.
>
>David
>
>Loic Dachary wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you please confirm that this is indeed part of DotGNU ?
>>
>> ---
>> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
>> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>>
>> stefan pernes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
>> License: gpl
>> Other License:
>> Package: DotGNU Single Login
>> System name: singlelogin
>> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>>
>> Single Login is part of the DotGNU distributed environment.
>> It is responsible for automatically logging the user into
>> site xyz while using her/his favourite browser.
>> It\'ll probably first implemented as a netscape/mozilla plugin.
>> You can have a look at the spec <a
href=http://members.home.net/alberts/single.htm>here</a>.
>
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