[Savannah-hackers] [ 100269 ] Submitting a package

[nobody]

Support Request #100269, was updated on 2002-Jan-04 13:53
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Category: Web
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: Submitting a package

By: villate
Date: 2002-Jan-07 12:39

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Most of the projects that you currently see with zero 
files, submitted their source code to be examined for 
approval. After approval, some developers who already have 
some source code written take a long time to upload it to 
the CVS repository, perhaps for lack of time or lack of 
familiarity with our interface.

Projects which do not have any source code can also be 
approved. In those cases the volunteer who is in charge of 
project approval at that time has to understand what the 
project is about and what tools is going to use. It is not 
enough to have a good idea and describe it in detail to 
get a project approved. We have to make sure that your 
project will be real free software and that it will not 
depend on non-free software.

Some projects (such as yours) are more difficult to judge; 
for instance if you just say you are going to use php or 
Java, we still need to know more details (version number 
or whose implementation of Java) to decide whether your 
package will be compatible with our policies or not.

When we need more information to evaluate your project, 
the volunteer in charge of approval sends you a personal 
and kind reply directly to you. If you think you have 
already given enough information and you do not see why 
your project has not been approved yet, you should respond 
to that volunteer directly and ask him what he wants. Each 
time you resubmit your project, the volunteer who receives 
your application may not be aware of you previous failed 
attempts, unless you tell him.

Jaime Villate
(one of the volunteers in the savannah-hackers team)



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By: yeupou
Date: 2002-Jan-05 17:10

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« Please help me understand why it is there are numerous 
non-GNU projects with zero files on this site, and I 
have not been able to get my project accepted? »

As I've previously said, I thinks that the point is about
being clear on describing your software, or other work.


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