Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:10:40PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:03:42PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > Why is there a distinction between GNU and non-GNU on Savannah? > > Sylvain or Karl can explain much better, but here's my take: > > 1) Mapping of the web repositories. GNU projects are mapped to > gnu.org/software/package while non-GNU to nongnu.org/package. > > 2) It is very helpful to select the group of all GNU packages, for > example if you want to review them and see if you can contribute. > > 3) I suspect there are gazillion of other differences in the way > Savannah handles the two groups (actually, there are more groups), > like mailing lists, etc. > > > It seems like a needless devision and a human interface nightmare. > > I don't think so.
I also appreciate to spot whether a project is GNU or not. Historically Savannah was only for GNU projects, and then came nongnu.org :) But indeed it's useful for many non-historical reasons. -- Sylvain
