[Savannah-hackers] Re: GNU projetct request was missed

[Mathieu Roy]

Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden> said:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:53:23AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > About a year ago, Federico Heinz registered a non-GNU package on
> > Savannah called PAPO, and he checked off that he wanted to make it a
> > GNU package.  But he never heard back from you about that.
> > 
> > Could you please follow up on that now?
> 
> I found his registration request in the archives, and some mails about
> the registration proces being unclear.
> 
> Maybe it was looked over the head.

He truly asked
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2002-05/msg00268.html>

> > 
> > Also, can you check and see which other non-GNU packages wanted to be
> > GNU packages and got overlooked in this way?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge: that is not possible.  

In fact, we can browse each mail sent to the archives for a
registration. But it can take years.


Aside from that, since several month we always do it when
requested. At that time (2002-05) we was only sending request when
some code existed, which is an error as you previously demonstrated,
Richard. 


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