Re: [Savannah-hackers] What happened here?

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Hugo Gayosso wrote:
> 
>     There is a project opened in Savannah that is working in a LaTeX
>     manual, maybe you could join forces.
> 
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/latex-manual
> 
>     John Arley Burns <address@hidden> is the person leading that project.
> 
> This may be a good project, and we might want to host it.  But it
> isn't a GNU project, and that raises the question: how did it get onto
> Savannah without my knowing about it and approving it as a GNU
> project?


This project is quite old, it is still a mailing list created with an
email alias only. At GVC we send anybody interested in helping with a
LaTeX manual to that team.


- From the aliases file:


# This team is writing a GNU Latex Manual
# Team formed: 9/6/1999
# Team completed:
# Mailinglist creator: elgin
#
#       address@hidden, removed by elgin 5/1/00 due to bouncing
latex-manual:
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        address@hidden,
        /com/archive/latex-manual
owner-latex-manual: gnu-volunteer-coordinators
latex-manual-request: gnu-volunteer-coordinators


> What happened here?

John Arley Burns <address@hidden>, told me that the activity had
decreased a lot, almost to the point of abandoning the project, he
asked for some web hosting and a place to put the work he and the
others had already done. I suggested using the development resources
that GNU provided, he sent some emails asking for web hosting,
accounts, CVS, and whatever it was necessary, but he didn't get
responses, so he got more frustrated.

I tried to help, and then Savannah, appeared so I suggested that he
went there. I don't know what happened after that, except for the fact
that the project is already there.


> This is an important question.

I hope it has been answered.

Greetings,
- -- 
Hugo Gayosso
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