Re: savannah project for parted ?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:28:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> After the security intrusion it suffered, savannah is now open again,
> altough new project creation will still be closed until end of january.

GNU Parted already has a project on Savannah.  It is #1902.

I have added you to the project.

> I propose myself to do the grunt work and coordinate the creation of a
> parted project on savannah, and to manage it afterward. This would mean
> the moving of the CVS server from the location it is now (Andrew's
> personal harddisk ?) to a more public place, as well as maybe moving the
> mailing lists to the savannah project.

I never used CVS for Parted.  I have kept every version of Parted, however.
(I found CVS mades it rather difficult to manage changes of filenames
and directory structure)

> Also, altough i am not sure if savannah has only CVS servers or not,
> there is also the possibility to use an arch or subversion repository
> instead. I have had no experience with arch, and altough it has
> distributed functionality, it is less mature than subversion, which in
> turn is a very nice replacement over CVS, and i have become used to it
> quickly when managing my debian packages on alioth in it.

I would prefer anything over CVS.

Cheers,
Andrew