On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alexander! > > > I hope you have a minute for me, I think you are the > best to turn to - in a minute you'll know why.
Hi Sebastian, I'm sorry if you get that bad impression of Savannah registration process. Unfortunately the current problem is: a. Project review is done by volunteers. b. We are very short of time. We are doing our best to keep up the project review, but now there's like a 2 months lag between project submission and actual review. :-/ > I wanted to register "Parser Playground" with Savannah > because I needed Git repository hosting and some kind > of "project home" for people to see and join around it. > After studying the "Comparison of open source software > hosting facilities" at Wikipedia [1] Savannah seemed > to be a natural candidate for me - it's very near to > GNU and FSF and seems to be everything that SourceForge > is moving away from. > > Somewhere on Savannah ground I read that Savannah is > said to process project registrations faster than SF. > While the task opened itself speaks of 10 days I cannot > remember ever waiting 10 days for a new project on SF. > I mailed Yavor Doganov if there's a chance to speed > up processing of my request, though I'm not sure if > that would have been "fair" to other requesters. > No reply. When I decided to give up waiting, open > a repository at a server of mine, and close the bug > somebody (you) was right there to close the task. > I understand cleanup is good and needed. What I wonder > about is why a request without a source tarball takes >>10 days to accept or request further information > and just a half to close? I think there's something psychological here--we know there's lots of submitted projects waiting for review and making the number smaller by one makes us feel a bit better. On the other hand we feel sorry if this is because people give up waiting for approval. > Why is a tarball requested on > registration - what if I'm starting at zero? > Why is license babysitting done and why is it a required- > come-back-when-fixed-loop instead of an accompanying service? > I gained this impression from the <savannah-register-public> > mailing list. We request a tarball to help you catch potential legal problems early: correct copyright & license notices, license-compatible project dependencies, no non-free dependencies, etc. However, there's no problem if you start with no source code--we generally accept such projects and review uploaded sources in a month or so. > I'm not asking because of Parser Playground - maybe it > would have been right to even actively reject it - but this > is not the last project I need hosting for. Fedorahosted > seems to have similar services and makes a good impression > to me but do I really have to go there? I mean why is > Savannah working this way? Is this the message Savannah > wants to send? > > If you feel like I'm wasting your time or in case Savannah > has a special person for this kind of mails please forward > and CC me. > > Thanks for listening, > > > > Sebastian > > > [1] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities -- Regards, Alex
