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

[Mathieu Roy]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> said:

>     In fact, we can browse each mail sent to the archives for a
>     registration. But it can take years.
> 
> Can't you use grep to find all the registrations that asked
> to make something a GNU package? 

We cannot, ask we do not store registration. But we could do a
research on the mailing-list archives.


> You can make a list of the package names, and intersect that list
> with the list of current non-GNU packages.  That will probably
> produce a list that is short enough that you can investigate all the
> items one by one with a small amount of work.
> 
> Ok?

I'll try to do that this week (downloading every mail archives in mbox
gzipped).

Regards,

 

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