Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Savannah - Next Generation - savannah.gnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

Hugo Gayosso wrote:
> I agree with Sylvain, and by the way, I haven't received any response
> from anybody other than RMS (other than agreeing that there was some
> lack of communication problems it provided no more information)
> regarding this issue either.

All I know is that Bradley, Paul and Jim gave reasons to Richard that  
made him conclude we had to move to GForge. Reasons include lack of  
security and of maintaince. Since then, we proved that those last  
reasons at last are not founded; unfortunately they did not tell the  
facts that lead to such conclusions.
For now, and from what I understand, the FSF staff will follow RMS'  
decision, and RMS will maintain his decision unless the FSF staff bring  
him other pieces of information (chicken and egg).


> So far what are your plans for continuing developing Savannah's code?

I do not think we have a lot of work on Savannah's code; our current  
'fork' is only a way to version control the little changes we are  
currently making, eg creation of projects in the savannah.gnu.org  
configuration.


> If there are no replies regarding GForge, do you guys think that we
> should propose merging (or adopting) the latest version of 'savane'?

Paul just sent a "status update" with details on GForge. An estimation  
of 16 weeks is given, which should be enough to consider using Savane.
What do you think is the best way to bring this issue on the table?


> I think we should decide this soon before your fork of the Savannah
> code becomes too different from 'savane' and then we end up with  
> three similar projects: Savannah, savane and GForge.

Our changes should be made as much externaly as possible, so the main  
code could be replaced without much difficulties.
Among others, we could code yeupou's suggestion (found in the code  
comments) to stop hardcoding the project creation procedures and use a  
user-defined list of external modules+procedures.

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Sylvain