Sorry for the late response. Apology accepted, at least on my part, and I consider the issue closed as well.
Thanks for your response to this! :-) Eric Weddington > -----Original Message----- > From: > [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected] > rg] On Behalf Of Sylvain Beucler > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 5:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] > Hostingrequirements inavrdude > > Hi, > > Ok, so let's try to sum up: one of the Savannah Hackers noticed > non-compliance of avrdude with the Savannah hosting requirements and > took action to enforce them. > > First, what are hosting requirements? > They are linked from the "Submit a new project" page, that is: > http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php > > Which one was involved? > The one about "Speaking about Free Software", which really only covers > 2 phrases: "open source" and "Linux". > > I think one of you got the impression that we're to apply GNU > standards to non-GNU projects: this is not the case, as you can see > the "Speaking about Free Software" only covers this; GNU packages have > other requirements that we don't intend to contact non-GNU projects > about. > > I hope this clarifies the scope of the initial request. > > > It appears that, in the process, avrdude fixed the non-compliance, so > we can consider this issue closed. > > > Secondly, the mail was worded by somebody with the habit of mass, > daily Savannah project submissions reviews. But doing a repetitive > and non-rewarding (yet important) job is no excuse for impoliteness. > We ask you to accept our apologizes for that. > > Given that this situation is not uncommon in the free software world > (who never got rude answers by a busy maintainer to a bug report?), we > wrote an explicit Code of Conduct: > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CodeOfConduct > > It includes elements from this conversation :) > It will be presented to new Savannah volunteers from now on. > If you have comments they are naturally welcome. > > > Last, your web repository was modified by us without your consent. > This is indeed a problem and rest assured that this won't happen > again. People may have different views of the powers of a site admin, > and our (respectful) position is now explicit in the code of conduct > too. > > > With these clarifications and corrective actions, I hope we now can > resume working all together in good faith on a better software world > :) > > Best regards, > > -- > Sylvain > > > _______________________________________________ > avrdude-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev > _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
