Re: [Savannah-users] How to take over an abandoned project

[André Z. D. A.]

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what are the steps  to take over an abandoned nongnu
> project.
>
> There is an old project named 'tlf' - a ham radio logger - registered
> back in 2003. It showed not much activity besides a moderate active
> mailing list.
>
> The development by the original author (Rein Couperus) stopped around
> 2008 to 2010. At that time I took over further development. But in later
> years we lost contact to Rein completely. (I just wrote him some weeks
> ago to ask once more for a transfer of administration rights to the
> project, but got no answer.)
>
> It would be nice if the group of current developers could get control
> over the project contents on savannah and use it more than just relying
> on the mail service.

From this message, I did not understand what TLF is about. I searched 
for it in Free Software Foundation directory:

http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?search=tlf&fulltext=Search&title=Special%3ASearch

One match:

http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Tlf

Then I read there. The first thing written is a link for a zip file 
hosted in Github.

Fiddling with this URL, I discovered that TLF was updated several times 
this year. Look at dates shown here:

https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/

And it was last updated this monday, as written here now:

https://github.com/Tlf/

So, the story about TLF has more details than it initially seemed to me.

And I am just a Savannah user that participates in this list, nothing 
more - in case you wonder.