[Savannah-register-public] Re: [task #6414] Submission of listhelper

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:15:48PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Btw, is that really official GNU software, or is it currently non-gnu?
> 
> Good question.  I put down official GNU software because we're using it
> to manage GNU lists, and so it weird to think of using
> address@hidden for discussion of a GNU management tool.
> Likewise the "obvious" web page is
> http://www.gnu.org/software/listhelper, not anything nongnu.org.
> 
> On the other hand,it's not a "package" in the sense of something that
> can be installed with configure && make, and I wasn't planning to add it
> to the maintainers file, but heck, we have lots of projects like that,
> right?  Starting with www and working on down.  But if we're trying to
> minimize such projects, nongnu.org would be ok.
> 
> Plus, the whole thing is theoretically temporarily when it comes to
> lists.gnu.org lists; if sysadmin ever manages to deploy the new mail
> system it will (supposedly) not be necessary any more.
> 
> So I feel somewhat at sea about categorizing it.  Wdyt?

Well since it's used for both lists.gnu.org and lists.nongnu.org, and
since it's not an officially dubbed GNU project, I suggest going
nongnu.

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Sylvain