Hi, Next time,
- I suggest don't submit an idea on behalf of a project you're not member of - I suggest don't assume you can mentor a project you don't know, in particular I suggest you understand the difference between Savannah and Savane, and the amount of non-development work involved in a hosting platform. - When I make every attempt to not scare a student with a big hint like "Jordi, we didn't get the chance to summarize your thoughts about this, how about doing it now?", I suggest you introduce yourself and rectify the miscommunication. - I suggest you don't scare the student yourself by mailing him "the Savannah people think it's worthless" while we're being discussing your rogue action - and preferrably, that you don't blame the developers about it like you just did. - and I'm sure everything will go much more smoothly. In this particular day, one thing you can do is suggest the Savan_nah_ maintainers they stop advertising the Python rewrite if they plan to contribute something in Perl. - Sylvain On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:35:34PM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm unhappy with the recent incident of losing a potential student > contributor for Google Summer of Code for the Savannah rewrite in > Python. > > Savane's development is dead. The git logs speak about this clearly. > The bitrotten webpage with dead links say this too. > > I'm sorry I didn't contact you, but it didn't look like there was > anyone to contact, since (1) the current mailing list sees almost no > activity either (2) the webpages are outdated and have broken links > (3) the git logs are a ghost town, as is the rest of Savane > development. > > So, if it's dead, please don't scare my potential students away. I use > Savannah almost daily, and I think it sucks. I could have fixed it > with a little bit of help, but because someone who isn't maintaining > the project thinks that it shouldn't be fixed in the way that the > current unmaintained web page says it should be maintained. > > If you aren't maintaining it, step aside and let someone else do it. _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list Savane-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
