Re: [Savannah-hackers] Question about the FAQ

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:50:49AM +0200, Vadim wrote:
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> Hello, I and a friend have already started preliminar work on a GPL'd 
> chat sever that requires encryption. We are considering hosting it on 
> Savannah. We have no problems with the requirements, excepting with 
> this part from step 5:
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> "If a GNU program wants to be extensible, it should use GUILE ( 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html ) as the programming 
> language for extensibility--that is the GNU standard extensibility 
> package. If the program doesn't use GUILE today, at least there 
> should be a firm plan to support it in the future."

That requirement is only for packages of the GNU project and not for all
packages hosted in Savannah.
 
> Our server is going to be extensible, however, at least the first 
> version is going to be written in Perl. This is because we want to 
> try first some ideas writing them in an easier language. If the 
> result is good enough and we see people like it, we'll consider 
> rewriting it in C. However, our knowledge of C isn't very good yet, 
> so it could take a while.
> 
> The server itself is intended to be used by small online communities, 
> and not as a replacement of IRC, so scalability shouldn't be a big 
> problem. 
> 
> Would it be okay to host the project on Savannah? 

Sure. Please submit it and don't forget to give a URL to any existing version
or if you haven't written any code yet, please state that clearly.

Cheers,
Jaime