Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Portland Directory Project

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Could you please submit your project again with a URL (possibly
temporary) to the existing code ? We will help you make sure the licensing
information is right.

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Simón Medrano <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Portland Directory Project
 > System name: pdp
 > Type: 2
 > 
 > Description:
 > Portland Directory Project:
 > 
 > Our PDP (Portland Directory Project) scripts do mantain a list of websites. 
 > The difference with other similar web directories is that ours only admits 
 > domain and subdomain names as website addresses, and checks (via DNS) that 
 > those sites be actually hosted at a given service provider (using an array 
 > of IPs or domain names). It will have two modes of operation (moderated, and 
 > unmoderated).
 > Moderated, will require some users with special privileges to accept or 
 > reject site submissions. While Unmoderated (or Auto-moderated), will put all 
 > recently submited sites into a list and let other users (already accepted) 
 > to check those sites and vote to accept or reject that submission.
 > It will also allow the users to manually edit the information related to 
 > their sites, and we are planning to add some features such as voting for the 
 > best sites, statistical information, advanced searches by sitename, 
 > webmaster, description, update time, etc.
 > It will probably share users database with others PHP database driven 
 > portals or website content management scripts.
 > 
 > We are actually working on it, but we *need* CVS.
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > Our Portland Directory Project runs on any PHP4 enabled webserver 
 > (preferably Apache) with a SQL database server (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL).
 > Does not have any extra requirement.
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > We started this project by the idea of creating a web directory of sites on 
 > a free webhosting provider (Portland Communications 
 > http://www.portland.co.uk/).
 > Initially, this project was aimed to be just an extension of the Portland 
 > Portal (http://portal.portland.co.uk/ which is run by volunteers users of 
 > the Portland free webhosting service).
 > But we decided to make it more extensible, and we didn\'t want to use any 
 > existent PHP libraries or content management scripts (such as PHP-Nuke, or 
 > similar); and amied our PDP software to any free webhosting provider, or 
 > webmaster\'s portals, or any other web community.
 > 
 > So we started coding and we found ourselves with the need of a version 
 > management system. We thought of CVS, but we do not have enough resources to 
 > run our own CVS server. Neither have Portland Communications provide us with 
 > that service.
 > We went to SourceForge.net, but they rejected our project, saying that PDP 
 > does not differ much from existing ones. :(
 > 

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