Hi, On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:11:04AM +0100, Colin Turner wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > > The least I can say is that I'm personally less involved. I have other > > activities and cannot really handle it. > > > > It does not mean the project is being orphaned but it would obviously need > > fresh blood/manpower or more external contributions to progress as it did > > in > > the past. Or at least someone willing to coordinate the project as I did by > > injecting external contributions steadily, keep the overal consistent. > > > > I wouldn't recommend gforge because it differs in matter of software design > > and licensing philosophy of what I personnally think better, but I'm forced > > to admit gforge has more manpower behind. > > That's all helpful to know. Clearly, we are working very hard to promote > free software at our University and beyond, and with some success. Since > I've managed to (mostly) get my head around the way Savane works I find > it nicer to use all the time, though there are always some niggles (as > there always are with such big programs). So, in summary, I don't wish > to leave Savane, and would in a perfect world like to contribute patches > towards the small new features I would like to see. > > I confess that I am already frighteningly busy, as the SVN commit times > on my own projects will testify, but, as a fellow of the FSFE and a > person committed to free software I am willing to contribute a little > time if it helps. Others might be too, including my colleague Gordon > Crawford. > > Indeed, I have been building experience packaging our own PHP code for > Debian, and once I had completed that task for our next big release late > this month or early next month, I did hope to turn my attention to > whether packaging for Savane could be improved. > > So, in summary, we at the University of Ulster are very busy for the > next few weeks, but after that perhaps we can help, at least a little.
I think it essentially went unnoticed (not that I minded), but I posted about a clean-up branch we're working on at Savannah: https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/savane-cleanup I'm still unsure about where it fits in the long run, something to merge or something that lives on. To the least, we run it under PHP5 without troubles, and we have Git support. Cheers, -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list Savane-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
