[Savannah-hackers] What's up?

[Richard Stallman]

Can you tell me what's happening with the work on these problems?
Whan can we do to help you work on them better?
(Don't bother with #5--that's not your area, and I know that the problem
is the viruses.)


Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
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Subject: problems with Savannah
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I understand that Savannah is volunteer run.  I'm very reluctant to
complain.   But it does seem to have become somewhat dysfunctional in
the past few weeks.   Some data points:


1) I've been unable to get the latest release of arch uploaded to the
   web site.  The request went in 20-Aug and the autoresponder said
   "most responses occur in 24-48 hours, not counting weekends and
   holidays".  (Followup messages have not been answered.)

2) After the security problems on ftp.gnu.org, there was talk of 
   setting up an alternative means of doing unattended uploads.
   That was originally advertised as being planned for the first week
   of August.

3) The protest page on the front page appears to be broken -- 
   the image fails to load after a long wait.

4) I can not edit my www.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch pages very easily
   because this item:

        http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2340

   is still unresolved.


5) The mailing lists are incredibly sluggish lately.


The first couple of weeks that I was using Savannah, every aspect was
much better -- which is I wonder if something had occurred to cause
the change.

-t