[Savannah-hackers] Re: Import CVSROOT tarball

[Loic Dachary]

Juergen Vigna writes:
 > 
 > On 03-Jan-2002 Loic Dachary wrote:
 > > Juergen Vigna writes:
 > > 
 > >  > Well what I've seen is that all I would need is there (cvs,
 > >  > bugtracker, news items). But what I would need is the import of my
 > >  > CVSROOT tree. If I understood the documentation only one of you can
 > >  > do this or can I do it too?
 > > 
 > >       There is no bug tracker at present.
 > 
 > Oops I thought there is. Anyway what about the CVSROOT import?

        You can certainly submit a project and when it's accepted we can
import the CVSROOT. This is part of the normal process of using Savannah.

 > Well what about the servers you use don't they cost money? The bandwidth and
 > other stuff?

        Servers are donations from various people and companies. The
bandwidth is also donated. Part of the volunteer work is to find
donators. For instance, if you have a spare machine you are welcome to
devote it to the GNU project for any purpose or for savannah
specificaly. You can ship the machine to the FSF (US, Europe, France
or Italy when it is established), or even better plug it to the
network and promise that it is exclusively dedicated to the GNU
project and can eat N kbps of bandwidth. The most critical thing is
the bandwidth. If no donator is willing to give machines during a
given period, that may not be a problem. If all of a sudden all
companies donating bandwidth dismiss, we would be in trouble. On a
regular basis someone providing bandwidth kindly ask us to move
machines. Until now volunteers (among which the FSF is proeminent)
always found ways to deal with this.

        Cheers,

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