Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU bridge

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        I changed the long name of the project to bridge because it's not
(yet ;-) part of the GNU project. I'd like to emphasize that chosing between
Savannah and SourceForge is less a matter of convenience than philosophical
attitude. Savannah is dedicated to Free Software, is maintained only by 
volunteers and is open to everyone willing to improve it. SourceForge is
dedicated to Open Source, is maintained by VA Linux employees only.

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: GNU bridge
 > System name: bridge
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > My project lets people play a game of contract bridge against the computer.  
 > It exists, but is in a very primitive state -- the only UI is line-oriented 
 > text mode, and the playing and bidding algorithms are as primitive as they 
 > can be while still obeying the laws of contract bridge.
 > 
 > The source code probably follows the GNU coding standards fairly closely, 
 > but I have not \"audited\" it (I plan to soon).  It does, in any case, use 
 > automake and autoconf, and compiles and runs on a half-dozen Unix-like 
 > systems, and Windows.  It is written in C++.
 > 
 > My goals for putting the project on savannah are to allow the project to be 
 > accessible by people other than me, without having to allow those people 
 > login access to my home computer.  I\'d also appreciate regular backups, 
 > although I don\'t know if subversions provides that service.
 > 
 > I don\'t have a copy of the sources on a web site at the moment, but can 
 > easily post them to one if anybody wants to take a look.
 > 
 > My long-term goals are to get other developers to help me implement a decent 
 > UI, and decent algorithms for playing and bidding.  And it\'d be nice if 
 > people could play other humans on the network, instead of the computer.
 > 
 > For what it\'s worth, I started the process of registering a new project on 
 > SourceForge for this program, but have not completed that process; if the 
 > process does complete, I certainly will not have the program on both 
 > SourceForge and savannah.  I will probably make the choice based on which 
 > service seems more convenient to me.
 > 
 > 

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