[Savannah-hackers] Re: my offer of help.

[Sylvain Beucler]

> Hi.
>
> I am still interested in helping, where I can...
>
> I will try to get my pgp and and ssh public keys updated...

Hi,

I had subscribed you to address@hidden This list receives  
user support requests, and is notified of support requests posted at  
the Savannah tracker:
http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=administration
where you also have the right to answer the requests and change their  
status (open/closed, fixed/later/works for me/etc).

There were few support requests the past few days. However, if you read  
a support request and feel you can reply it, feel free to do so. We do  
not really have a way to synchronize each other, so sometimes we start  
answering a request and then see that another Savannah hacker already  
did so. In any case, we try not to interfer with other hackers' support  
request, except to make comments.

Maybe it would be good that we logged to #savannah at freenode when we  
start working on Savannah, especially since we are more numerous. We  
would have to make some rules. For example, chatting when working is  
pretty time consuming, so everybody should consider OK if other  
Savannah hackers are not in the mood for a talk, although are free for  
discussing requests attributions or helping other Savannah hackers.

I also have to find out who is in charge of this chat. I'll ask  
Mathieu.



If you do not want to answer support request and prefer to start  
implementing concrete stuff for Savannah, have a look at Paul's list of  
tasks:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2004-06/msg00101.html

Incidentally we currently have some problem with this list, first  
because we were not consulted, and then cause some choices appear  
stupid (mainly, moving to GForge).

This is a heated debate :)

Unfortunately we have troubles communicating frankly and quickly with  
the FSF officials, so we are wasting quite some time for no avail at  
the moment.

Therefore, it is advisable to discuss with other Savannah hackers  
before to chose one task.


Of course, everything is somewhat more clear when you have a few  
experience with Savannah. If you want, you can ask Elfyn to add you to  
his 'testytest' project, so you can use it as a "sandbox".


You can also try to reproduce Savannah's configuration on a local  
computer. More documentation on this coming soon.

If you have any other question, feel free to post at savannah- 
address@hidden

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Sylvain