Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah Projects Approval

[Sam Bromley]

Thanks Elfyn,
Your speedy reply is appreciated and
impressive! I believe that I will
remain with Gna! for the time being,
and therefore will not require any
further processing at Savannah.
Thank you very much for providing
such services however, and good
luck with all of your future improvements.
All the best.
Sam.

PS: My new project request was "mvth",
under account number "28535" and
username "sbromle".

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:47, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hello Sam,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:26:58AM -0400, Sam Bromley wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm quite pleased to hear that all of your hard
> > work had finally paid off. Good job folks.
> 
> So are we, and thank you! :)
> 
> > I have registered my project with www.gna.org,
> > however I am quite interested in pursuing a move
> > to savannah.nongnu.org but would like to clarify
> > a few questions I have had. If you have a few moments
> > (which I'm sure may be few given the backlog you
> > must now deal with) I would much appreciate any
> > information you could provide me on the following
> > questions:
> > 
> > 1) Does savannah.nongnu.org offer hosting via
> > gnu arch (tla) instead of CVS, akin to www.gna.org?
> 
> Not yet.  We hope to offer GNU Arch support some time in the future.
> 
> > 2) How does savannah differ from gna? Would I be
> > correct in assuming that the recent security improvements
> > made at savannah have not been made at gna? Gna seems to
> > have implemented secure certificates for all sessions.
> 
> The changes made to the Savannah infrastructure differ in different parts
> of the services offered.  For example, we no longer use pserver for anoncvs,
> each project has it's own chroot environment, and we require uploads to be
> GPG-signed.
> 
> > Is it bigger than this? How does savannah differ from
> > savane?
> 
> Savannah (the software) is an older version of what is now known as Savane.
> We will hopefully be upgrading soon, so there will be no differences.
> 
> > 3) The user documentation at gna appears to be more extensive
> > than that available at savannah. Is this a temporary issue,
> > am I simply unaware of its location, or are you targetting
> > a different audience? Is there any more to the FAQ provided?
> 
> It certainly is.  The documentation hasn't been updated much since December
> 2003, which will change soon.
> 
> > 4) Which software host, savannah or Gna, is most readily recognized
> > as supporting the Libre Software movement? (Biases aside :) )
> > The delay in savannah's operation may have given Gna an upper
> > hand here. But I'm looking for the best long term solution.
> 
> Gna! and Savannah both support the Free Software movement, with Gna!
> being sponsored by FSF France and Savannah being sponsored by FSF USA.
> 
> > 5) It is very difficult (for me) to determine exactly what hosting
> > services are offered through savannah, aside from CVS hosting.
> > What are those services? (eg. Through a round about way I found
> > that I can host my project webpage at savannah. I also
> > found a link in the FAQ explaining what to do if the mailman
> > password was lost, thus implying that I can have a mailing list.
> > I would really just like to see a list of possible services
> > with a short consise description of each.)
> 
> Savannah and Gna! offer the same services, with some dirrerences in the way
> they are implemented.  For example, Gna! offers sftp and rsync access to
> manage download areas while Savannah offers anonymous FTP (and soon a web
> front-end) to manage download areas.
> 
> A short run down of the services we offer are:
> 
>   Project homepage
>   Mailing lists
>   CVS repository
>   Download area
>   Bug, news, patch, support and task managers
>   ViewCVS (for source and homepage repos)  
> 
> > Sorry for all the trouble. Keep up the good work.
> > Cheers,
> > Sam.
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School of Engineering
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