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

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Thomas,

Am Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:24:56 +0200
schrieb Thomas Harding <address@hidden>:

> Is it a GNU or nongnu project ?
>
Just to answer your question. It is a nongnu project.

We could resolve all problems in meantime (see post from Karl on
sv-hackers-pub).
So many thanks to all of you who helped to sort things out.

Regards,
        Thomas 

 
> 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.
> >>   
> >
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >"Do what is needful!"
> >Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea
> >--  
> 



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