Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Cron

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Unless I'm mistaken your project is not (yet ;-) part of the GNU
project. Could you confirm this ? 

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Ryan Golbeck <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: GNU Cron
 > System name: cron
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > This project has not yet been started.
 > 
 > The purpose of the project is to create a replacement for Vixie cron that is 
 > backward compatable with Vixie cron to maintain the usefulness of currently 
 > written scripts.
 > 
 > Reasoning:
 > 
 > Vixie cron has been a much exploited application, and new vulnerabilities 
 > are still being discovered.  In addition, the maintainer has not made an 
 > update to this package since 1993.  This is causing forked efforts by 
 > distributions to keep cron up-to-date security wise for their distributions.
 > 
 > Cron is a critical utility of a GNU system, so it is important that this 
 > package be well written, secure, and well maintained.
 > 
 > 
 > There are three primary goals of this project:
 > 1) Establishing a well coded and security concious cron daemon.
 > 2) Be easy to work with from scripts and simple to use for users while 
 > retaining compatability with current cron daemons.
 > 3) To provide advanced and extended features for the GNU/Hurd operating 
 > system.
 > 

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