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

[Thomas Harding]

Is it a GNU or nongnu project ?
You should try address@hidden too.

Le 29 mars 2017 19:02:30 GMT+02:00, Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden> a écrit :
>Hi André,
>
>thanks for confirming my message got thru. I was irritated by the
>statement at the top of the mailing list archive that the content is
>updated twice an hour. So after waiting a day I just did a second try.
>
>Wrt to your findings on github it is the same project. We used github
>for the last years because we nearly lost control of the project on
>savannah. The only service left was the mailing list. But we would
>like to come back to savannah to some degree.
>
>In meantime we (together with the staff from savannah - thanks) are on
>the way to sort things out.
>
>So I hope I could answer your questions about the story behind the
>scenes. And again - thanks for coming back to my first mail.
>
>Regards,
>
>       Thomas.
>
> Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:12:36 -0300 schrieb "André
>Z. D. A." <address@hidden>:
>
>> > 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.
>> 
>
>
>
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