[Savannah-users] Projects, Git, CVS and Licenses

[ghaverla]

Greetings from the Great White North (in my case, Grande Prairie,
Alberta, Canada).

5 weeks or so ago, it seemed reasonable to start doing something with a
bunch of code that I have.  Some finished, some almost, some hardly
started.  While I've known of versioning systems for decades, I've
never actually spent any significant time working with any particular
one.  They all have rules, and one has to work with what is allowed.

Where I am starting from, is a GIS (you could call it geostatistics, I
see it as also being useful to working with surface chemistry or
scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and others)
project I started on.  I have about 30 Perl modules built, I am
guessing to finish it is probably another 15.

If things ever go to CPAN, they would like useful hierarchies of
names.  And so I have attempted to name these things in that manner,
and they are all over the ballpark.  To me, this is all one big
project.  And while I could split every piece into its own domain, it
might be useful to keep everything together too.  Looking at the Git
world, what seems to work as the "one big project" is subtrees.  But
Debian does not have subtree support.  I wrote the maintainers, but
after doing so I ran across a bugreport about subtrees at Debian, so I
don't expect a reply.

I don't know if subtrees would work, to me it just looks like they
might.  How people talk about subtrees versus submodules (which is in
Debian Git), submodules wouldn't work.  Sure, I can download git from
source and compile it for myself, and ditch the Debian Git that is now
here.

Are git subtrees something to use, or is this a partial answer looking
for a better approach, and that is why Debian is dragging its feet at
putting it in Debian Git?  I run across 3 different versions of git
subtrees.  One complaint was lack of documentation (which seems to be a
constant in software).

If that makes the most sense here (my home server), does that impact
projects at nongnu?



I think it would be really nice, if someone could put together a "Hello
World" tarball which represents the website side of a Savannah
project.  Looking around, I haven't a clue as to how to set this CVS
side up, and I will have to wait until I actually have an approved
project to start.

I have autism, I can appreciate being pedantic.  :-)  Licenses are a
necessary evil.  I'm a dinosaur, I live in an 80 column wide world in
emacs.  It might be nice to have copies of the various licenses for
that format.  Maybe you could give them the extension ".vt52"?

In any event, I have just about finished reformatting my .vt52 versions
of GPL2, Artistic2 and FDL, which it seems I need to include verbatim.
I need to go through all my files, and point to the appropriate license
in all of them.  And then I guess I can apply for a project.

Which gives people here some time, to answer questions here, and I'll
know whether I am dealing with 1 project or many.

Have a great day!
Gord