Hello Paul, It's great to see you helping out with things!
Paul Walker wrote: > https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?14222 - I realise I'm rather late > to the party, but - it seems to hit all the points mentioned in > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly/ > > Did I miss something which means it's not been responded to? Or did > it just fall through the cracks? I am a terrible person because I rarely work on project submissions. I don't know anything about the past history on who looked at that submission before. But I look at it now and it is literally just two shell scripts. That's quite tiny for a GNU Project package. The vision for Savannah is that people will submit projects that might one day be an official GNU Project package. Or maybe never. And that's okay too. But generally significant sized projects. Very tiny things that are just a single shell script or two have a high overhead because they have to be reviewed and maintained and such. And so on the basis of that submission being so small I myself would have been thinking very hard about whether it was suitable or not. There has been a lot of discussion and some activity on the idea of the GNU Project setting up a more hands-off self-service software forge for hosting whatever the user wants much more like some of the non-free commercial sites do now. I think it will happen at some point. But there isn't anything to point at yet. When that happens then I would be pointing the single shell script projects to that site instead. Hope this helps to explain one of the possible reasons that submission didn't get any traction. Probably there was not an excess of reviewer time and so that one just slipped through. Which is definitely a poor reflection on us as reviewers. We should do better. That's one of the reasons I am excited to see that you are taking an interest in helping out! Perhaps you might subscribe to this mailing list and contribute! It would really help out. :-) Bob
