Re: [Savannah-hackers] RE: SGL's submission

[Loic Dachary]

        Thanks for explaining this. Since your project consist of a
software development (SGL package manager), it indeed fits into the
kind of projects Savannah can host. Could you please submit your project
again ? 

        Cheers,

Hendrik Visage writes:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 >  I'd like you to reconsider the refusal.
 > 
 > Reasons:
 >   SGL at this stage doesn't contain more than 1MB of data. The actual
 > .iso etc. is not what we want on there, but rather the grimoire & the 
 > sorcery (ie. the RPM equivalent package management) to be able to give
 > more people access to a CVS storage place for the scripts etc.
 > 
 >  The creation of .iso and binaries, would be the sole responsibility of
 > the distribution managers, which we aren't expecting you at all to store
 > those stuff on you servers.
 > 
 > You see, SGL is but the package manager (Read RPM equivalent) that
 > only works with BASH scripts that download the source to be installed.
 > These source packages we are NOT going to put on youre site, but rather
 > let the installer/sysadmin download it himself if he wants it to be 
 > installed./
 > 
 > Please reconsider this, as this would make great contribution to this 
 > system's
 > future and growth, that is not going to take the same amount of resources 
 > that
 > some of the software already on your site consumes. Example BASH's 1.5MB .tgz
 > compared to SGL's 180KB + some support scripts totalling less than 200KB
 > bz2 compressed.
 > 
 > Again I plea for a reconsideration, rather than a complete blank based on
 > distribution.
 > 
 > Thanx for the time and reconsideration

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