[Savannah-hackers] Re: joining www project

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) a tapoté :

> Hi Mathieu,
>
>     All these issues must be handled by the www team.
>     (ie. Brett should remove himself from the www project administration
>     after setting the appropriate person as admin, and this person should
>     add you)
>
> jpw put in a request with savannah to change the admin.  I hope you'll
> be ok with that.  Brett has not responded to any of several assorted
> messages I've sent him recently.
>
> Meanwhile, I was informed that there are currently no cgi scripts on
> www.gnu.org (because of mirroring).  So I was wondering if I could do it
> on savannah, which already has cgi scripts.  Would that be possible?
>
> My goal is to make the process of evaluating new software submitted
>for inclusion in GNU more efficient.  Right now, authors express
>interest and we send them back a short form with the information we
>need to get started.  It would be better to put that form on the web
>and have the authors fill it out to begin with, thus saving a step
>(not to mention hearing from a lot of authors who don't really
>understand the implications).  FWIW, I ran this idea by rms and he
>thought it sounded good.

It is possible to mirror cgi scripts (not via wget but rsync), I think
that's the thing to do -- or to exclude from mirroring the few CGI
pages and replace them by redirection to the www.gnu.org CGI pages.

The Savannah server is barelly enough to keep Savannah running, it
is not a good host for anything else.


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Mathieu Roy

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