Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Help need in Savannah

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Mario,

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Mario Castelán Castro
<address@hidden> wrote:
> There is no "typical" case.  Some project met all the hosting
> requirement and are approved just after reviewing the tarball.  Most
> cases some file lack the licensing information or so, and you have to
> ask the mantainer to include it and upload an updated tarball, then
> you review it again, and if all is ok, approve the project.

Your message, with minimal formatting, would make a terrific tutorial
for wannabe project approvers. It would save a lot of effort next
time, too. Is it possible to format it and upload it as a cookbook
recipe?

> Alex Fernandez: Please don't forget to say you are not administrator
> yet in your first message when evaluating a project, when you think
> all is ok let me know and I will do a final review and approve the
> project.  After you get some experiencie I will propose to the rest
> savannah hackers to give you administrator permissions.

I will do that. For starters, here is a quick rundown for all projects
without an owner, without a comment and newer than 10 days:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10246 (snippets): a supposed
tutorial but a bit fishy because it contains no code at all. I asked
the uploader about it.
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10257 (afppowertools): a bit
succint, but looks OK. The author says: "There's no copyright licence
in the "grammar" files, as they are merely YAML translations of the
AFP specifications, which can be found here: http://www.afpcinc.org/";,
apparently the files contain purely functional info but I wanted to
check this.
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10267 (archup): copyright
holder is "Rorschach" and not a real name, docs with license at the
end, files not in a directory. Author contacted.
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10269 (ddos): confusing
copyright statements, docs with license at the end or no license.
Author contacted.
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10274 (doubango): no tarball
provided at all, just a link to code.google.com to check it out,
submission speaks about "open source". Author contacted.
  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?10275 (MathCandy): directory
not called matchcandy, copyright header does not specify package,
submission speaks about "linux". Author contacted.

There are seven more, I will try to do them tomorrow, OK?

> And please subscribe to
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers-public and
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-register-public.

Done!

Thanks for your amazing help,

Alex.