[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah software development plan

[Mathieu Roy]

"Jaime E . Villate" <address@hidden> said:

> Hi Mathieu and Loic,
> I've had some very interesting meetings with Derek and Frederik here at CERN;
> they have gained a lot of experience with the Savannah software and they can
> make some important contributions to its development. We have agreed on some
> common plan of action (please feel free to propose any changes):
> 
> 1- Remove the cron job that updates automatically the PHP scripts in
> savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongu.org.
> 
> Up to now, developers who commit changes to the repository have had root 
> access to the server and can fix any problems immediately. The idea is
> that from now on, we may accept contributions from other developers who do not
> need to have root access or become familiar with the set up of our
> server. When they commit changes to the repository, one of us (Loic, Mathieu,
> Laurent or Jaime) will decide if we want to update the local copy of the PHP
> scripts, and check whether they work correctly in our server.
> 
> If there are no objections, I'd like to do this by tomorrow.

Fine.

 
> 2- Tag the current sate of the Savannah repository and make a first release of
> GNU Savannah, uploading a tarball in the files area. 
> 
> In the past we have not worried about releases, but now that we have several
> groups using our software in their sites and sending bug reports we should
> implement a release policy.
> 
> I would like to do this as fast as possible so Derek and Frederik can start to
> contribute for the next release. If nobody objects, I will assume the
> responsibility of tagging and creating the tarball; but before I do it I will
> check with Mathieu that we do not have any more immediate changes to
> introduce.

I think we should tag a new release only when savannah-backend2 is
ok. gnuscript content is not decent for a release, sv_cvs is highly
gnu.org specific.

> 3- Include Derek and Frederik in the list of Savannah
> developers. They have both shown to be very knowledgeable and
> dedicated to the improvement of Savannah; they have also agreed to
> transfer the copyright of their contributions to the FSF.

Fine.


> I'm also preparing a document with the proposal for a new SQL table structure
> that we have discussed with Frederik and Derek. This would be implemented for
> the second release of Savannah. The discussion of that proposal and any other
> changes after the first release should be done in the savannah-dev list.

Perfect.


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Mathieu Roy
 
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