Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Cron

[Ryan M. Golbeck]

Hello;

Yes, that's correct.  I (thought) I was applying for it to be part of the
GNU project by registering it on savanah.  Was this not the proper thing
to do?

Ryan

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

>       Hi,
>
>       Unless I'm mistaken your project is not (yet ;-) part of the GNU
> project. Could you confirm this ? 
>
>       Cheers,
>
> address@hidden writes:
>  > 
>  > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
>  > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Ryan Golbeck <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
>  > License: gpl
>  > Other License: 
>  > Package: GNU Cron
>  > System name: cron
>  > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>  > 
>  > This project has not yet been started.
>  > 
>  > The purpose of the project is to create a replacement for Vixie cron that 
> is backward compatable with Vixie cron to maintain the usefulness of 
> currently written scripts.
>  > 
>  > Reasoning:
>  > 
>  > Vixie cron has been a much exploited application, and new vulnerabilities 
> are still being discovered.  In addition, the maintainer has not made an 
> update to this package since 1993.  This is causing forked efforts by 
> distributions to keep cron up-to-date security wise for their distributions.
>  > 
>  > Cron is a critical utility of a GNU system, so it is important that this 
> package be well written, secure, and well maintained.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > There are three primary goals of this project:
>  > 1) Establishing a well coded and security concious cron daemon.
>  > 2) Be easy to work with from scripts and simple to use for users while 
> retaining compatability with current cron daemons.
>  > 3) To provide advanced and extended features for the GNU/Hurd operating 
> system.
>  > 
>
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Computer Science
University Of Waterloo

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