[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:20:47 -0500, Joshua Ginsberg via RT wrote: > > If so, not a huge deal -- just give me the rubric for the cvs > repository structure and I'll add it to the existing checkout > mechanism. Sylvain, is there anything I could do to help you with that? Most of the teams have emp

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I think we can proceed this way: > > - Give me a list of projects to rename (old name -> new name). Check > whether there're project mailing lists to rename and give me a list > too. Old New Mailing lists

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Those aliases could be removed in a couple of months or so. > > We can do that with aliases at fencepost (I don't know if you guys > have an account there). Sure. > Anyway, can I have a list of old names -> new names for the lists > (including the one you already fo

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] MappingSavannah projects tohttp://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

William Cai wrote: > > You probably already knew that there are actually two set of Chinese > encodings, i.e. Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. "zh-cn" > is used for Simplified Chinese only. I would like to leave www-zh-tw available in case a separate project is created (there might be

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Since all translation projects start now with "www", could it be > > possible to change this default (i.e. omit `www-' at the beginning)? > > That was a mistake in the group type configuration. > Fixed :) Thanks. > The convention could be [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, give

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah mailing lists moderation

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:05:02PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Just to know - who (besides me) is approving / moderation the Savannah > mailing lists? Not me, but I can volunteer in case there is nobody more suitable than me (I admit that it is strange to do zero Savannah work as in my case

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah mailing lists moderation

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > No I meant there's no way to tell who approved the last batch of > pending mails. Ah, I see now. One of the many missing things in Mailman, I guess. Still the best software for that job, though.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:55:30 +0200, Явор Доганов wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > > The convention could be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, give me a week to contact all teams and I'll revert with a full > list, so you could rename them in a batch and I could add the aliases > at fp:/com/mailer/al

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Savannah stuff

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:40:29PM +, Noah Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:38:46PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > Yes, but in CVS. > > So, let me see if I get this, if you have a Subversion project you > have to keep the gnu.org web pages under CVS? :/ Yes, l

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Savannah stuff

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:36:55PM +, Noah Slater wrote: > Do you keep the pages that live under gnu.org/software/foo in your > savanaah project? Yes, but in CVS.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Done. Many thanks. (I'll add the aliases later tonight). > www-el-general already exists, See https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7573 -- perhaps my advice there was wrong :/ Αθανάσιος, can you confirm that the list works? > (please don't do that again!) I promise. Is

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:12:08 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > - a list of old webpage locations to remove (the nongnu.org/wwwXX > pages, in particular) > > - the list of translation projects to map to > http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/) Sylvain, I'm sorry but I find

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:17 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Once everything is done, the old locations at www.nongnu.org and > www.gnu.org/software/ won't be updated anymore, so we need to spot > them and remove them. It's a clean-up job. Ah, of course. Here's the list of locations to be dele

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

[ Full quote because of trans-coord-discuss readers. ] At Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:58:37 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:51:09PM +0800, William Cai wrote: > > Sorry, I did not catch up with this thread. Shall I move the stuff from > > www/software/chinese to www/server/standa

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:42:06PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > Yavor, I confess I don't understand the reasoning for dropping the > www-. Only for the projects' homepages, e.g. /server/standards/translations/ca. The projects will be www-LANG, of course. > Right. Well, /server/translations/ does

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] GNU/non-GNU distinction

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:03:42PM +, 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

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new fronpage text

FWIW, I fully agree with what John said, plus: Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote: > > Savannah, as many other sites, it's a forge, with a big different, we > only host free software. All the software that you can find here it > was reviewed and verified that doesn't have any license problem which > incl

[Savannah-hackers-public] Read-only files in www's CVS repository

Basically all files in the root of the "www" project's web repostory, added after 2005-02-22 are with permissions 444. Very unfortunate. Today I added a /po subdirectory with a bunch of files and all of them were added as read-only too. The only reasonable explanation is that www was made read-on

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Read-only files in www's CVS repository

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I had a look at po/ and it doesn't look different than the rest of > the CVS files at Savannah :/ Too bad, it basically rules out my theory. > Files are created 444 _on the server_ but that's the way CVS set > permissions for all repositories. This is where the oddity

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Read-only files in www's CVS repository

At Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:11:30 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Hi, > > It turns out that somebody activated 'cvs watch on' at a point. > This on a CVS feature Yeah, I know about this "feature" but thought it was disabled somehow at Savannah. If I understand correctly, anyone can activate it by

[Savannah-hackers-public] About /maintenance/WhenSvN

Now that Subversion is officially supported, should https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhenSvN be deleted/renamed or edited somehow? It creates the impression that there are many things still to be done. Is it so? Also, the GNUstep project moved the repository to Gna! some years ago; would it

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] About /maintenance/WhenSvN

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:16:55AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > IMHO we needn't, as Savannah Hackers, put our noses in other projects > and deal with the highly troll-able subject of VCS hosting and choice. Makes sense; I should have thought about that aspect. My intention was to write them as

[Savannah-hackers-public] New nongnu mirror

Please add: URL: http://mirrors.zerg.biz/nongnu/ Location: Germany Admin: Mihai Leonte

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailing list

Tim Dobson wrote: > > > If you get listed as a Free Software user group, we can approve > > the project. > > We are now listed as a FSUG [1]. "We are now listed as a FSUG because I edited the file." would be the sentence that correctly represents what happened. Well, it doesn't work this way.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailing list

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:30:14PM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: > though it's now > clear to me the reasons why this policy is in place. The policy is in plase because someone from the Webmasters must check (at least initially) that the group meets our criteria. Only 5-10% of all groups get listed,

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailing list

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Do you think we should remove the Savannah account and resources > meanwhile? I guess it depends on how likely DFEY-NW is to be listed. No, only iff it gets rejected; it seems unnecessary burden for you and I'm sure Tim will be wise enough not to spread the word about t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailing list

At Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:39:34 +0300, Явор Доганов wrote: > > Meanwhile, the ticket that Tim filed has been moved to our queue, so > I'll let you know about the outcome in a few days. The group was added to the list so everything is in order.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] pending gnu projects first

Karl Berry wrote: > > Is there a way to sort the pending projects so that ones that want > to be GNU are listed first/separately? Not ideal, but... * In "Display Criteria" choose "Advanced" query form. * In the "Original Submission" cell type "official GNU". * Use logical "OR" between 'Summary'

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Sylvain will kindly take care of this, I hope. > > I didn't follow exactly what you are refering to. I thought that the question was about the useless remnants on the server that you personally said (several months ago) that it's a matter of housekeeping to delete.

[Savannah-hackers-public] (General) CVS commits notificiations problem

Since Monday I don't get CVS commits notifications from the various projects I'm following. Commits do happen, it's just that they're not mailed to the appropriate lists. I saw a fairly recent change in diffmon or savane-cleanup touching log_accum.pl, perhaps that's the culprit?

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Ok but _where_ are those CVS repositories? I'm sorry that I don't understand the Savannah setup, so I'm most probably talking nonsense. I think that Ward removed these directories at www.gnu.org, but he meant someone to remove the subdirectories of these projects' Web

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] (General) CVS commits notificiations problem

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Can you give a specific example? The last mailed commit to www's web repository is this: I've personally done several checkins since then, so had Karl, and a few translators. The Emacs project usual

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain, I see you made an announcement about the replication, and I assume you made the necessary changes on the Savannah side. May I inform the translators that this task has been completed, and they can start committing to their web repositories?

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #368989] Ocelote GUG

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I don't know who this mail is adressed to, but anyway: To webmasters + Savannah hackers. > 1) People may attach a webpage to the registration or to e-mails > before they are uploaded at nongnu.org I thought of that too, but in case like this it means that the requirem

[Savannah-hackers-public] Prevent creation of mailing lists with names reserved by Mailman

rst PHP file I edit in my life :( Please don't laugh too loud... From d34a9e66b30569bf5a5b3b5aa57bbfcc34885c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:14:55 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Prevent creation of mailing lists with names reserved b

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Prevent creation of mailing lists with names reserved by Mailman

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > you need to detect suffixes, so checking the complete name won't > work. That's what I thought I'm doing -- according to my (uneducated) reading, $list_name['new'] is esaxtly the suffix in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course I may be wrong, but I can't see what's the right suf

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Prevent creation of mailing lists with names reserved by Mailman

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > But you fail to detect this: > 'emacs-all-admin' > => $list_name['new'] == "all-admin" > != "admin" Ah, of course! I never thought of that (valid) case. I'll try to rework it taking into account your other remark too, but I'll have to read some PH

[Savannah-hackers-public] Commits to the "www" web repository do not propagate

Joakim Olsson wrote: > > but nothing happened at http://www-test.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.html Since yesterday at around 15:00-17:00 UTC (based on non-scientific observation) commits in the "www" project do not appear online at nadesico. This happened many times before, and was sysadmin's conc

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > That is, a generic url that automatically redirects to a "nearby" > mirror -- e.g., http://ftpmirror.gnu.org That's awesome. I knew such a thing is in the works, but didn't know it's actually running. Do you plan to advertise this service actively? That way the mirror fra

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > It's basically just a few lines that interface between the mirmon > data and GeoIP, as I recall. Hmm, this is wrong, I believe. The geographically closest mirror is not necessarily the fastest one. In fact with my disgusting monopolist provider it never is. Connecting to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > I did put a note about it onto gnu.org/prep/ftp.html when I added > the anchors a couple days ago :). The thing is, nearly nobody uses that list (now). > What other important places come to mind? I vaguelly remember a discussion involving you, me and the sysadmins to run

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > The geographically closest mirror is not necessarily the fastest > one. > > Sure, but it's the only information available. It is much better than > just choosing one completely at random. I thought that some smart query is being made to determine which mirror is

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > No, we certainly don't want to redirect the ftp.gnu.org name itself. OK, I haven't thought about that aspect. Entirely reasonable and understandable. > to actually redirect to the _fastest_ nearest mirror. > > What's done now is the best that can be done, as far as I

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

Karl Berry wrote: > > I don't claim it's a panacea I see, thanks for all the explanations. I understand the reasoning much better now.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Reviewing changes

[ Sylvain, this is about a request to change the commit notifications setup for the "emacs" project. ] At Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:26 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > The log_accum.pl script used by Savannah by default sends all of the > > changes (summary + commit message + diffs) in one email

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Reviewing changes

> > use for Emacs the "single email per commit" script used by default > > (containing summary+message+diff), and send it to the emacs-diffs > > mailing list. Done. There was one problem -- the commits in lisp/mh-e were sent to emacs-commit with diffs (and nothing to emacs-diffs). I've always wo

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Licensing issues

Karl Berry wrote: > > Would non-compiling scripts, such as shell scripts, be > described as source files. > > Definitely, as Noah said. In short, the author should put a license > notice in anything they create, i.e., that is not a derived file. While this is right, many people do not

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Licensing issues

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > If it's a case of being picky I won't annoy the people who do not add > the licenses to those files. Thanks for the help. IMHO it is desirable to mention that these files must have notices, but having that as a requirement for pr

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] my intro

Noah Slater wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:27:47PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > We recommend using 'COPYING' [...] > > Is it okay if COPYING is added by GNU Automake at packaging time but > is absent from the actual source. I do not like keeping generated > files in my repository and

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] my intro

Karl Berry wrote: > > I think COPYING should always be in the source repository and that > it is a bug that automake inserts it IMVHO, as far as I have followed Automake lists and the GNU Build System lists in general, this feature is meant to be just a convenience for GNU maintainers. It is not

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Pootle server at Savannah

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Is there any interest to install it at Savannah? For the time being -- no, at least as far as web-translators are concerned. RMS promised a separate server for our stuff (mostly because the FSF admins are always lagging, and this would require many tweaks/interventions

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] php and savannah?

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/PhpIssues > > The main issue was not the PHP license itself, it was the fact PEAR > was using it for some of their own independant PHP libraries. So, the incompatibility with the GPL is just one of the problems (which alone is enough

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Google weirdness

John Sullivan wrote: > I noticed today that pages living at www-test.gnu.org are being > indexed by Google. I've asked the sysadmins to correct that. It was up until recently, AFAIK. > However, I also came across results for > http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/... Does anyone know where this

[Savannah-hackers-public] Bzr status

Is there a tasklist what remains to be done for full official support of Bzr at Savanah? I searched the wiki but couldn't find anything (probably my fault, though).

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license

Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > If you take a look at this license notice you would find that it is > incompatible with the GPL. Yes, that's a well known issue, see http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html. > The project GiVME has a dependency on openssl. It should have a special exception

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > One thing you didn't mention is using GnuTLS. Deliberately -- it's well known, and hated among major developers (why?) [1]. Migration to GnuTLS is not always trivial, and the openssl compatibility layer (in gnutls-extra, I think) does not work in all cases and is under GP

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On the other hand, I see a growing number of Debian packages linked > against GnuTLS. Of course -- many people understand the problem, and choose to go the safe route. That's one of the reasons why the GnuTLS project was started in the first place, if you recall. OTOH, t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > I do think that a vast majority of people don't compile their software > and get it packaged. I agree. > Which means the availability of a package in a distro is critical. Critical for what? For its popularity and easy availability only, I guess. > In addition, given t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license

Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > > What I was not understanding is would the GiVMi project maintainer > have to get the approval of those projects to use Openssl. The problem only exists for dynamic linking with GPL libraries. LGPL is OK. (And of course you can't copy-paste any LGPL/GPL code without t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Two question which I have to pass on

I'd like to share my comments regarding this topic; please note that what I say is entirely based on (now substantially blurred) memories from earlier discussions/documents/etc. It is simply my humble uneducated opinion on how I interpret this complex matter -- no more, no less. I beleive the rec

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Fw: Athanasios Kasampalis quitted the project greekwebtranslations

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > The www-el project doesn't have any admin. Yes, Athanasios left www-el, www and the mailing lists. > Do you think this is normal? Absolutely not, but what can I do? He doesn't respond to my messages -- I wanted him to confirm that this was intended, as we need to find s

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [la...@yahoo.com: Remove me from all projects please.]

John Sullivan wrote: > Leo was doing quite a lot of work for GNU and the FSF... Not speaking about Leo personnaly... ...but that's a problem with nearly all volunteers for the big pile of unexciting tasks. They start with a truckload of enthusiasm, but after N months they eventually run out of s

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [la...@yahoo.com: Remove me from all projects please.]

John Sullivan wrote: > I hear you, but in this case Leo was also taking on some larger > projects that were more than just the usual unexciting tasks. I know, that's why I find it hard to believe that a person with sufficient motivation would get affected by Nicodemo's (presumably innocent and uni

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Error in triggering updates

Andrea Pescetti wrote: > As Savannah was down for a few days recently, I had accumulated a small > queue of changes to upload to the gnu.org website CVS repository. > > When I committed them, yesterday, I got an error on the "Triggering > webpage updates..." (or very similar) message that appears

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

Noah Slater wrote: > User-agent: * > Disallow: / > > The effect is that no mailing lists are spidered by Google, This is a deliberate decision by the GNU sysadmins, although I can't tell right now the reasons behind it (and I don't care, actually -- not being indexed by proprietary search eng

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/MailSystem Thanks, I was sure the reasons were purely technical, although I didn't remember the details. Noah Slater wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a joke, but I struggle to take it seriously. Not a joke. I avoid using Google, Yahoo

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

Noah Slater wrote: > Sylvain, Karl, thoughts? Sylvain and Karl are not GNU sysadmins, so they have little to do here, except expressing an opinion. > > the GNU project does not have a mission to make their life easier > > You have the wrong framing, this is about making it easy for users. In th

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

Noah Slater wrote: > > Sylvain and Karl are not GNU sysadmins > Where would be the proper place to take my concerns about this > matter? sysad...@gnu.org > Again, you have the wrong framing. > > This isn't about making the archives Google friendly, it's about > making them people friendly! Rig

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: online/web based gettext editor

[ CC-ing sv-hackers. ] Ali Servet Donmez wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 09:48 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > others are Rossetta (which will remain non-free even when Launchpad is > > relicensed, IIRC) > > It seems that Launchpad is licensed under the GNU Affero Gen

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: online/web based gettext editor

At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:54:17 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Btw, I was also pointed to Vertaal: > Do you know about it? I've heard about it but thought that's an internal SuSE thing. Apparently not.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] FDL license

Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > I don't understand the FDL license in that it asks the author to > place the license in the document. Yes, this requirement exists because the license allows distribution of opaque copies. For example, I may print out a manual and hand it to you in the pub. The recipient

[Savannah-hackers-public] Comment for attached files in the trackers

At some point in the past, I'm quite sure that if you attached a file on a tracker item with a "comment", the comment about the attached file was visible in the generated email message. This is no longer true, though. Could you restore the old behavior please? It was useful. (See https://savann

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Moving #savannah from FreeNode to OFTC

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:09:24PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > > I'll be interested to see what other savannah folk think. [I don't think I count as "savannah folk", but anyway.] Personally, I don't care much, not being an IRC user myself, but... > I got an OK from Mario a

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Fw: tatchai quitted the project Thai Translation Team for the gnu's web

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Is it normal that www-th does not have a project admin? Yes, for orphaned/non-functional translation teams.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Moving #savannah from FreeNode to OFTC

At Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:51:12 -0500, Mario Castelan Castro wrote: > > It is unfortunate that #savannah is not going to be on the same > I rather think it's unfortunate GNU channels are on Freenode If you believe so (note that I don't dispute your statement, as I can't possibly evaluate its meaning

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Access to GNU projects' webpages by GNU webmasters

At Tue, 7 Dec 2010 22:00:44 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > I clearly remember that at a point, I saw a communication from a GNU > webmaster stating that it was no longer necessary to provide a way > for 'www' members to access to per-projects webpages > (www.gnu.org/s/*). I don't mind re-enabling

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Access to GNU projects' webpages by GNU webmasters

Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Some time ago, tired of having to remember which VCS was being used by > each of the projects I follow occasionally, I wrote a trivial script > called "up" which guesses the repository format and calls the > appropriate command. There's mr (http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/m

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Access to GNU projects' webpages by GNU webmasters

Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > There's mr > > I tried it out. It's a very nice meta-vcs, but there's one annoyance: > you need to register repositories before you can update them. Ah, that's an overwhelming limitation, indeed (I've never used mr, just thought it's worth mentioning). > How could we

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

Alex Fernandez wrote: > Improving Emacs on Windows may look like improving Windows, when seen > by a critical eye; but in the end it is more about improving Emacs > itself. There is little reason to improve Emacs if that improvement is not going to take us closer where we want to go. The GNU proj

[Savannah-hackers-public] Impossible to add comments to reported bugs

Some time ago I reported some bugs to various Savannah projects but it seems that now I cannot followup (add comments) to these bugs. At the top of such bug report there's a line saying: | You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your | current authentication level. I am logged

[Savannah-hackers-public] Impossible to add comments to reported bugs

Some time ago, I reported some bugs to different Savannah projects but now it looks like I cannot post a followup (add a comment) which seems rather strange. At the top of these bugs there's a line saying: | You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your | current authentication l

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Impossible to add comments to reported bugs

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 04:44:10 +0300, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote: > Yavor Doganov написал(а): > > | You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your > > | current authentication level. > > Have GNUstep project administrators disabled their bug tracker? Ugh, appare

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:20:47 -0500, Joshua Ginsberg via RT wrote: > > If so, not a huge deal -- just give me the rubric for the cvs > repository structure and I'll add it to the existing checkout > mechanism. Sylvain, is there anything I could do to help you with that? Most of the teams have emp

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I think we can proceed this way: > > - Give me a list of projects to rename (old name -> new name). Check > whether there're project mailing lists to rename and give me a list > too. Old New Mailing lists

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] MappingSavannah projects tohttp://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

William Cai wrote: > > You probably already knew that there are actually two set of Chinese > encodings, i.e. Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. "zh-cn" > is used for Simplified Chinese only. I would like to leave www-zh-tw available in case a separate project is created (there might be

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Those aliases could be removed in a couple of months or so. > > We can do that with aliases at fencepost (I don't know if you guys > have an account there). Sure. > Anyway, can I have a list of old names -> new names for the lists > (including the one you already fo

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Since all translation projects start now with "www", could it be > > possible to change this default (i.e. omit `www-' at the beginning)? > > That was a mistake in the group type configuration. > Fixed :) Thanks. > The convention could be [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, give

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523]MappingSavannah projectstohttp://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:06PM +0800, William Cai wrote: > One thing to clarify -- Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are > the same language as well. Oh, sure, no need to clarify (for me at least). The difference is (correct me if I'm wrong) that you cannot convert from one script

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:55:30 +0200, Явор Доганов wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > > The convention could be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, give me a week to contact all teams and I'll revert with a full > list, so you could rename them in a batch and I could add the aliases > at fp:/com/mailer/al

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Done. Many thanks. (I'll add the aliases later tonight). > www-el-general already exists, See https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7573 -- perhaps my advice there was wrong :/ Αθανάσιος, can you confirm that the list works? > (please don't do that again!) I promise. Is

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:12:08 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > - a list of old webpage locations to remove (the nongnu.org/wwwXX > pages, in particular) > > - the list of translation projects to map to > http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/) Sylvain, I'm sorry but I find

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:17 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > Once everything is done, the old locations at www.nongnu.org and > www.gnu.org/software/ won't be updated anymore, so we need to spot > them and remove them. It's a clean-up job. Ah, of course. Here's the list of locations to be dele

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

AFAICT this item still needs action from the sysadmins. As per the last message from Sylvain, anything needed from our (web-translators) and his (sv-hackers) part is done. (Not that I'm pressing too much; I'd wish that translation teams should not be allowed to have web pages -- but it would be ni

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

This is an old request regarding translation teams renaming which involves joint GNU sysadmins + Savannah hackers action (sorry!). I'm feeling uneasy to reopen it, but AFAICT it is not yet resolved. I believe you have all the details in the RT log; it basically boils down to renaming all translat

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > www/software/chinese > > Can you remove it from there too? What a mess... There is /software/chinese and /chinese in www. They'll be removed when the Chinese folks move the content to the www-zh-cn Web repository. > I sincerely apologize for having sat on thi

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > There are still some other projects checked out under non-gnu: > > www-bg/ www-bn/ www-eo/ www-fi/ www-ja/ www-nl/ wwwauth/ wwwbg/ > wwwhurd/ > > I'm assuming that www-bg, www-bn, www-eo, www-fi, www-ja, www-nl and > wwwbg can be deleted; can you confir

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > www-bg/ www-bn/ www-eo/ www-fi/ www-ja/ www-nl/ > Only www-fi seems to have one file in it; the others are empty. > > So what do I do with them? Please delete them all, including www-fi. Thanks.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > Done. Thanks. > Will you make sure the CVS directories are removed? Sylvain will kindly take care of this, I hope.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #348523] Mapping Savannah projects to http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/translations/X/

Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > So there's nothing more on our end that needs to be done to close > this ticket? I believe so, yes. In any case, you can safely close this ticket -- if there's some other action needed from the sysadmins that we fail to realize now, any subsequent message with th

[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #368989] Ocelote GUG

This is a classic chicken-and-egg problem, which I wanted to discuss when I saw task #8191. Now the ticket came to webmasters. Romel Sandoval writes: > I'm trying to create a GNU User Group on Savannah [1], but after some > waiting, I read something on Savannah user's mailling list [2] that > sa

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