[Savannah-register-public] [task #14186] Submission of Ring

[Alexandre Viau]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?14186>

                 Summary: Submission of Ring
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: aviau
            Submitted on: Wed 19 Oct 2016 02:39:57 PM GMT
         Should Start On: Wed 19 Oct 2016 12:00:00 AM GMT
   Should be Finished on: Sat 29 Oct 2016 12:00:00 AM GMT
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=11654> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=11654>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *Ring*
* System Name:  *ring*
* Type: Official GNU software
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later

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==== Description: ====
GNURing is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms
and privacy of its users.

GNURing uses distributed hash tables for establishing communication. This
avoids keeping centralized registries of users and storing personal data.

GNURing is mostly written in C++ and is split in three main components:

 - The Daemon (dring and libring): It does not interact with users but it is
involved in every command. The ring daemon si responsible for all networking
tasks.

 - The LRC layer (LibRingClient) is written in QtCore and facilitates clients'
portability between operating systems. Communications between LRC and the
daemon is done using D-BUS

- Finally, the client. Written in GTK, our main client is called gnome-ring.
The code base of gnome-ring consists mostly of UI code as the rest is handled
by LRC and dring.

Other main components of the software architecture of GNURing is our main
dependencies:

- OpenDHT: This is the DHT implementation we use in order to make GNURing
decentralized

- PJSIP: This is the SIP implementation used in GNURing to manage signaling.

- GnuTLS: The GnuTLS library manages our certificates, keys and encryption
methods for audio, video and text.

- FFMPEG and LIBAV: In order to make data transfer faster and lighter, Ring
uses codecs for compressing and decompressing it during the transport. These
codecs are managed by the FFMPEG and LIBAV libraries for audio and video.



==== Other Software Required: ====
This was checked in the GNU eval already.

Our main dependencies include:
- OpenDHT
- PJSIP
- GnuTLS
- LIBAV/FFMPEG


==== Other Comments: ====
Ring has already went trough the GNU eval, I am submitting the project on
Savannah as required by Richard Stallman's email to address@hidden


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://dl.ring.cx/ring-release/






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