[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Matrix extension for Guile - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> said:

> Hi Mathieu,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:27:55PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > 
> > I understood that it's a official part of the Guile project. Do I
> > misunderstood?
> 
> Well, from the messages I've read in savannah-hackers I got the impression
> that it is not an official part of Guile. I do not think that the maintainer
> of Guile is aware of this package. Also, notice that the same author
> registered another similar project (guile-fftw) which was approved in the
> non-GNU area. I think the two projects are on equal footing regarding GNU.

Should I contact I'm to get more informations?

> 
> > > The same goes for the gnome-kinyarwanda project. It is the
> > > translation of a GNU package, but I think that does not make it
> > > automatically a GNU package.
> > 
> > It's problematic : this is official part of GNOME. And GNOME remains
> > official part of GNU (despite it's leaders doing proprietary
> > software). How to classify non-GNU a subproject of a GNU Project? If a
> > project has been accepted to GNU, it means that every new package (or
> > subproject) their maintainers create for the project are GNU too? For
> > instance, gnomecc is GNU, despite the fact that no special announce
> > has been made about it.
> 
> Look for instance to a small part of "fgrep gnome maintainers" (the complete
> list is long, and I do not include any e-mail addresses):
> 
> gnome - desktop project (remote) - Miguel de Icaza <address@hidden>
> gnome-core, gnome-libs, gnome-terminal - Miguel de Icaza <address@hidden>
> gnome-db (remote, gnome) - Michael Lausch <address@hidden>, Rodrigo Moya 
> <Moya_Rodrigo/address@hidden>
> gnome-games (remote, gnome) - Ian Peters <address@hidden>
> gnome-media (gnome) - Tim Gerla <address@hidden>
> gnome-nethack (for gnome) - Gnomehack <address@hidden>
> gnome-panel (gnome) - George Lebl <address@hidden>
> gnome-pim (gnome) - Federico Mena <address@hidden>
> 
> Each Gnome sub-projects is listed separately and a maintainer's name is
> listed. If "gnome-kinyarwanda" is listed in Savannah as a GNU project, we
> should expect someone from the GNU project to ask us "who is the official
> maintainer of gnome-kinyarwanda and why isn't he listed in the maintainers
> file? has he been appointed by Richard Stallman?"

This is a translation project : it means that it will produce files
that will be part of each gnome packages you listed.
 
> By the way, what is the gnomecc project? I could not find any
> information about it.

The gnome control center.


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Mathieu Roy
 
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