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

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Thanks for clarifying this and sorry for not understanding it
right away. Please re-submit the project, adding a line to make absolutely
clear that the project is to write a piece of software. 

        Thanks for your patience,

Sharath Udupa writes:
 > hi,
 > 
 > actually Quartz is a project to develop a web-based management tool to FCAPS
 > a linux router (zebra). This software can be made to sit in a black box or
 > included in a software distro. I hope I have clarified the project aim. If
 > the explanation given earlier is confusing(in the website), I will rewrite
 > and send it.
 > 
 > see ya,
 > Sharath
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 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Loic Dachary" <address@hidden>
 > To: <address@hidden>
 > Cc: <address@hidden>
 > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 8:48 PM
 > Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Quartz
 > 
 > 
 > >
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > Savannah does not host distributions (sets of software
 > > packages), it hosts individual software or documentation
 > > projects. Maybe you could submit various projects for specific
 > > components of Quartz ?
 > >
 > > Cheers,
 > >
 > > address@hidden writes:
 > >  >
 > >  > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > >  > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > sharath udupa <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > >  > License: gpl
 > >  > Other License:
 > >  > Package: Quartz
 > >  > System name: quartz
 > >  > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > >  >
 > >  > This project is aimed at developing a comprehensive platform to provide
 > routing functionality along with easy and effective QoS management services.
 > >  > This can be realised as an appliance or as software distro. As an
 > appliance this would be a black box with can be plugged to the existing
 > network infrastructure. This box behaves as a router along with providing
 > QoS management services. Since this would be a black box, managing the box
 > would be through a web interface which provides the administrator some
 > freedom in choosing the location from where s/he would want to configure the
 > device.
 > >  > This could also be realised as a software distro, i.e., we provide a cd
 > packaged with the system(OS+platform) which when installed on a PC would
 > provide the complete services.
 > >  >
 > >  > The first task on hand is integrating the several parts already
 > available in linux needed to realise this platform. I would like to list a
 > few of them (this by no way is a complete list) -
 > >  > *Linux kernel 2.4 - This should provide all the networking services
 > needed,i.e, TCP/IP stack, QoS service (necessary options are chosen when
 > compiling the kernel),etc.
 > >  > *Routing services - We could use existing applications such as Zebra or
 > linuxrouter.
 > >  > *QoS services
 > >  > *APIs for using the kernel provided services.
 > >  > *Web based interface - this will the interface used by the
 > administrator to configure the platform
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.
 > >  >

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