[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Adaptive Domain Environment > Confidential?

[philippe gerum]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Is savannah beggining to be a secret place with "confidential" projets?
> 
> Recently, requesting this status, a project was rejected. Is this 
> project so secret that only Loic have the right to know what do you 
> plan to do during the registration procedure and why someone can 
> succesfully do a registration that would be rejected for anyone else?
> 
> I'm really not fine with this ("Confidential. Please create in private 
> mode and ask address@hidden for
>   detailed information.": is savannah about freedom or about 
> autocracy?) and I think that anyone should be able to know why a 
> particular project is hidden from the public.
> 
> The FSF projects are because they are not software nor documentation 
> projects.
> 
> And about this one: why?
> 
> If it is not a software project, why should we accept this one since 
> many others non-software projects has been rejected?
> Does a special clause, allowing to accept for his familiar what is 
> unacceptable for the others "normal" savannah users, exist?
> 
> Hope to get some clear and lawfull explanations about this (Free 
> Software is transparency, hey ?). If it's not the case, I really don't 
> understand why we ask the "commoners" to write a complete description 
> and maybe things are not what they seem. :(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> PS: the goal is not to disturb you but, well, I must admit that I'm 
> some kind of crappy idealist...
> I'm sure nice explanations exist...

I'm not disturbed and I fully understand your point. Secrecy is definitely
not the best way to freedom. However, there are indeed reasons for such a
request, neither specifically nice nor idiotic. In any case, I'll respect
savannah hackers' decision to accept this project or dismiss it.

Philippe.