Re: [Savannah-hackers] Time for a news item?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

On 2004.07.02 22:49 Alexander (Sasha) Wait wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:07:15 +0100, Elfyn McBratney
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > A short summary of what we need to get working on would be something
> like this:
> >
> >   - CVSROOT directory management (modules, cvswrappers,
> {log,commit}info, etc)
> >   - Download area management (uploading, renaming, linking,
> deleting, etc)
>
> First off-- as somebody that both wants to use Savannah and help with
> its development-- I want to say you (the Savannah hackers) have done a
> great job with this site!   I hope my previous post was not too
> negative.   Although I completely understand the importance of
> re-establishing CVS and download area management, I am a little
> worried that these things will change with the implementation of
> GForge.  As a relative new comer-- if I'm going to help rather than
> get in the way-- it might be best if I worked on a low priority but
> wholly independent task.

Note that we do not consider that moving to GForge is decided. We may 
also upgrade to Savane instead (we'll discuss that soon again).

> >   - Mailing list management (creating, changing password, deleting,
> etc)
> I recommend -- http://groups-beta.google.com/

I am not sure we can use this. We support support GNU Mailman, abeilt 
we have to provide some web interface for common administration tasks.


> If you (or the powers at be) give me permission, I could contact the
> people that had ARCH working before, get to the bottom of the pros and
> cons of the previous attempt and implement something new without
> interfering with any existing system.
>
> I don't want to get in your way while you are working on more urgent
> priorities but I can offer some new blood to work independently on a
> more future minded goal.  What do you say?

This parallel work would be a good idea.

I guess the best would be to do the job on a test Savannah installation.
I began to wrote a little guide to do such a test installation, however 
it is very terse and incomplete (I focuses on installing the Savannah 
software, not the CVS/FTP/etc services). I/We could first work on 
finishing this and see how Arch can fit in the system.

Also, who is the "people that had ARCH working before"?
Incidentally, Gna! has a partial Arch support, as far as I know it is 
for the download area purposes.

What do you think?
If you are still interested, feel free to reply and give us our 
comments.

--
Sylvain