[Savannah-hackers] Re: Evaluation: OJE

[loic]

Richard Stallman writes:
 >     This evaluation was requested by savannah-hackers, how should we
 >     proceed?
 > 
 > I think this means that someone tried to register the project on
 > Savannah, and that the Savannah maintainers sent them the explanation
 > of what it means for something to be a GNU package and asked them if
 > they want that, and they said yes.
 > 
 > Savannah maintainers, is that correct?  I had better verify this
 > before I write to them.

        The front page of Savannah says this:

If you would like to make your software package a GNU package, then
write to address@hidden An attempt to register a project that is not a
GNU package will also forward the request to address@hidden Before doing
this you might want to read the GNU Coding Standards to find out if
your software complies to them and the GNU Software Evaluation Team
page.

        When a software package is submitted to Savannah I therefore assume
that it means the author wants it to become a GNU package. From the moderation
interface of Savannah I send a standard mail to the evaluation team to ask
for evaluation. The package author also receives a copy and if, for some
reason, he does not want the package to become part of the GNU project he
has a chance to say so. 

        In some cases the project submitted to Savannah is not a software
package in which case I engage a dialog with the author to figure out why
and how he would like his project to be integrated in the GNU project.

        Let me know if this procedure makes sense. 

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