[Savannah-hackers] experience as a new savannah user

[Tom Lord]

I wanted to hate savannah.  I was part of the GNU project "way back
when" and savannah is just so very, very different from anything we
used back then.  And it's derived from the same source as sourceforge
of which I am, in fact, not too fond.

I couldn't do it.   I've been setting up the `gnu-arch' project on
savannah over the past week or so.    All I can is: _wow_ -- this is a
great infrastructure.

And not just the software -- every time I've contacted some address or
other for help with this or that, the response has been timely and,
well, helpful.

Thank you for all your hard work -- in my opinion, it has really paid
off.


-t


p.s.: an arch-user has started a little mini-campaign:

    > From: Jonathan Walther <address@hidden>

    > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:09:24PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
    > >> I am having problems with sftp on Savannah.  It logs in
    > >> successfully, then closes the connection.

    > >Hum, sftp is currently unsupported. Sorry.

    > The Xouvert project, and project Havelock depend on arch.  I have
    > already set up projects for them on Savannah (instead of Sourceforge).
    > Could everyone here please help out by letting the Savannah admins know
    > that we NEED sftp to be able to use arch?

    > Please send your notes of encouragement and enticement to

    >     address@hidden

    > I trust everyone here will be considerate and polite, but we REALLY need
    > to let them know how vital and important arch support is to the future
    > of Free Software.

    > The window of opportunity for Xouvert is almost past it's prime; I need
    > to be able to start committing to Savannah right away.

    > Cheers!

    > Jonathan

I just want to state for the record that, yes, I think it'd be a swell
idea to make it easy for savannah users to use arch.   Also, though,
I'm in no big hurry.   I'm sure there are lots of issues to consider.   
I'm sure it will happen once it makes sense to everyone.   I'm hopeful
we'll work together on it somewhere down the road.    In the meanwhile
-- one step at a time.

-t