[Savannah-hackers] Savannah status update

[Paul Fisher]

Since the last update, the majority of recent Savannah work has been
related to fixing unexpected bugs:

* We resolved issues surrounding multiple-day delays for Mailman
  messages, delays related to the Bagle.F worm, and general email
  delays resulting from dumping the backlogged Mailman queue onto the
  MTA's queue.  The Mailman issues affected both Savannah and standard
  GNU mailing lists.

* Fixed the problems with gnutls web page updates.  Savannah-hackers,
  please contact us if you run into any more projects that need to be
  able to update content in /software but lack a CVSROOT tree.

* Confirmed a bug and commented on a suggested fix for resolving a CVS
  checkout problem for branches on CVS trees

* Provided information to rudy to finish up the cron job to generate
  tar files of per-project CVSROOT repositories; that
  functionality should now be complete and working correctly.

* Started initial discussions regarding the database structure of the
  current Savannah installation and the effort that will be required
  to transition from those structures to the ones used in GForge.

* Continued work on restoring log_accum.pl.  The only remaining task
  is to rewrite the email portion of the script to use C equivalent
  socket calls in Perl to do the work that Net::SMTP was performing.
  Using Net::SMTP makes it difficult to chroot log_accum.pl.

* Sylvain Beucler fixed a GPG key upload bug:

    In Groups.pm, the script gave gpg all the GPG keys it read in the
    database one ofter the other, without separator, so if a user had
    not put an \n after its GPG key, it spoiled the next key.

Sylvain has also expressed interest in writing the code to knock

    * Create a web interface to manage Download areas for nongnu
      projects

off of the TODO list.  Such help is very much appreciated.

Paul