Re: [Savannah-users] Two questions

[Andreas K. Foerster]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:07:29AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> I've just released my new project at http://www.nongnu.org/galois/ .
> Can you please help me with two things:
> 
> - I've uploaded the source tarball at nongnu.org.

please don't do that with CVS.

> I'd like to upload
> it also to the Savannah download area,
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/galois/ . Can you please
> tell me how to do that?

>From the commandline you can use sftp:
sftp address@hidden:/releases/galois
send the file with "put <filename>", disconnect with "bye".

In the GNOME3 filemanager select File->Connect to Server,
Server: "dl.sv.nongnu.org", select "SSH", directory "/releases/galois"
and you must provide your username and the password for your ssh-key.
When you are successfully connected you might want to set a bookmark...

(who said graphical user interfaces are easier to use???)

> - I'd like to announce my project so that people get to know it exists
> (and maybe even try it!). Can you please suggest any web sites/mailing
> lists/other communication channels where I could post the
> announcement?

http://directory.fsf.org/ (purely Free Software for free systems)
http://freecode.com/ (also has nonfree software)

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AKFoerster <http://AKFoerster.de/>