[Savannah-hackers] Re: Request for hosting of AUC TeX

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden (David Kastrup) said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > address@hidden (David Kastrup) said:
> >  
> > > I can't guarantee that the software at the current point of time
> > > meets all the criteria for GNU projects: for example, at the current
> > > point of time an autoconf-based installation is absent.  Once the
> > > software is hosted off Savannah, I believe to have better
> > > possibilities to recruit people for working on such deficiencies,
> > > but I can't guarantee a time frame for them.  We would probably be
> > > offering RedHat RPM files in addition to tarballs since one of the
> > > preview-latex developers (another project of mine) is rolling them
> > > anyway.  I'd be glad to offer things like Debian packages or similar
> > > if volunteers for that turn up, but I can't make any promises of who
> > > will contribute in what manner.
> > 
> > Being hosted on savannah and being a GNU package is two different
> > things. We host GNU and non-GNU project. GNU goes at sv.gnu.org and
> > non-GNU at sv.nongnu.org
> > 
> > You can register as non-GNU and become GNU later.
> 
> I suppose that developers need not register separately for accounts
> when such a change occurs?  The reason for the proposed switch to
> Savannah is to make it relatively straightforward to recruit people to
> work on AUC TeX.  If a later switch to sv.gnu.org would cause people
> not to bother registering a second time, that would be painful. 

Users's accounts are associated to project, but the fact that a project is
GNU or not does not change anything for them.


> In addition, I personally consider it a bit of a turnoff to be
> running under the "non-GNU" moniker and would very much want to
> pursue belonging rather in the GNU category.  Per Abrahamsen tells
> me that the history of AUC TeX is such that getting copyright
> assignments from all contributors by now would be pretty difficult,
> but that is not a requirement for being GNU, anyway. 

For that point, you have to deal with address@hidden

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Mathieu Roy
 
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