[Savannah-hackers] Re: gfe integrated to http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/

[Anuradha Ratnaweera]

Thanks for adding GFE to savannah project. I will do the needful to get
things synchronized.

Regards,

Anuradha

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 address@hidden wrote:

> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   gfe was integrated in the SourceForge.net clone dedicated to GNU
> projects that can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/. The URL of
> the gfe project on Savannah is http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/
> It provides you with the following facilities:
> 
>   . Web interface to handle contributors CVS write access. You don't
>     need to ask someone, it is automated. Only the gfe project
>     administrators on Savannah can give CVS write access to new
>     contributor or deny access to an existing one. This is basically a
>     one click operation.  If you want to become a project
>     administrator ask an existing administrator to grant you the right
>     or, if there are no project administrator, ask address@hidden
>     to become one.
> 
>   . Editing http://www.gnu.org/software/gfe/ pages using CVS 
>     instead of login onto gnudist.gnu.org. As soon as you commit
>     information in this CVS tree, it will show on 
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/gfe/.
> 
>   . The gfe CVS tree now has a separate CVS history instead of an
>     history merged with all other projects hosted on
>     subversions.gnu.org.
> 
>   For more information on how to access the CVS trees, click on the
> CVS menu at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/.
> 
>   No action is required from you, the Savannah setup does not require
> that you change your habbits. However, it would be nice of you to do
> the following:
> 
>   - login at least once on https://savannah.gnu.org/account/login.php
>   - read the CVS instructions for the gfe project
>   - checkout the gfe CVS tree according to these instructions
> 
>   When all contributors will be using the new CVS tree, we will be
> able to remove the backward compatibility installation for gfe.
> 
>   When you login Savannah, the transaction is secure (SSL).  In case
> you wonder what all this is about you can check the cvs-hackers and
> webmasters mailing lists archive, they contain a lot of discussions
> regarding this planned integration. 
> 
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