Re: Guile and the Free Software Directory

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: address@hidden
   Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:37:45 +0100

   What, actually, _is_ the problem with the current setup?

for GNU purity reasons (that i happen to agree w/), the gnu.org page is
a subset of:

  http://www.glug.org/projects/list.html

that contains only free software.  the pages are generated from a
database and the maintenance/generation software is available here:

  http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/guile-projects/

the database is not available, as it contains passwords (for light
security only).  the database administrator typically updates the
database based on email inputs whose format is specified here:

  http://www.glug.org/projects/protocol.txt

the gnu.org-specific page is additionally checked into cvs on a gnu.org
machine (access to which probably requires a gnu.org account).  the file
README.MAINTAINERS in the cvs module contains further process notes.

this system actually functions apart from the previously alluded
historical censorship acts, and in theory can continue independently so
long as the two cvs repos are administered separately.  in practice, i
find this kind of "collaboration" to be suboptimal and have found other
things to do while waiting for guile project management reform and/or
maturation.

thi