About savannah, KLog and KMeter

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hello Jaime.

Thanks for your patience.

So we have carefully looked at the issue.  What happened, in a nutshell:

1) The KLog project has indeed been hosted in savannah.nongnu.org for
   many years.  The group was registered in 2002, and you imported the
   sources in a SVN repository in 2011.

2) In 30 April 2020 you submitted an application for another project, to
   be hosted in savannah.nongnu.org: KMeter.  During the evaluation of
   the submission the savannah hackers found some problems that violate
   the savannah hosting requirements, and they reached out to you in
   this savannah task ticket:

   Savannah Administration - Tasks: task #15622, Submission of KMeter
   https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15622

   As you can see in task #15622 they tried to get in touch with you in
   three occassions:

   - Fri 08 May 2020
   - Sun 31 May 2020
   - Mon 15 Mar 2021

   With no answer from you.  You are supposed to get email notifications
   from Savannah when somebody replies to you in a forum, so maybe you
   want to check your savannah settings?  Maybe you have an email
   address there that you no longer use?

   In any case, in these messages the savannah hackers told you that
   they had also found similar problems in the existing project KLog,
   not just in the submission of KMeter:

     "Please be sure to fix these issues in this package and in other

      your packages hosted in Savannah."

   And then almost a year later after no response:

     "No further interest?  Should I cancel this submission and delete
     your package from Savannah?"

   We reckon we should have been more explicit in that communication in
   that we were talking about removing the KLog project.  We apologize
   for that.

3) We proceeded to discard the KMeter application and to remove the KLog
   project from savannah, due to these policy violation _and_ because
   the maintainer/submitter appeared to be missing in action for the
   good part of a year.

Good news is that we finally managed to reach you! :)
So, what can we do now?

- Regarding KLog, the group has been removed from savannah.  However, we
  have backups of the VCS, download area and the mailing list archives.
  If you are still interested in hosting the KLog project in savannah,
  we invite you to start a new submission.  The savannah hackers will
  then evaluate it and guide you in fixing any problem that makes it not
  compatible with the savannah policies.  Once approved and a new group
  gets created, we can then restore the VCS, download areas and the
  mailing list archives.

- Regarding KMeter, the application has been closed due to lack of
  response.  So if you are still interested in hosting it in savannah,
  please start a new submission and work with the savannah hackers to
  make it compatible with the savannah hosting requirements.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience, and we look forward to work
with you :)

Salud!