Re: [Savannah-users] How to take over an abandoned project

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi André,

thanks for confirming my message got thru. I was irritated by the
statement at the top of the mailing list archive that the content is
updated twice an hour. So after waiting a day I just did a second try.

Wrt to your findings on github it is the same project. We used github
for the last years because we nearly lost control of the project on
savannah. The only service left was the mailing list. But we would
like to come back to savannah to some degree.

In meantime we (together with the staff from savannah - thanks) are on
the way to sort things out.

So I hope I could answer your questions about the story behind the
scenes. And again - thanks for coming back to my first mail.

Regards,

        Thomas.

 Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:12:36 -0300 schrieb "André
Z. D. A." <address@hidden>:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I am wondering what are the steps  to take over an abandoned nongnu
> > project.
> >
> > There is an old project named 'tlf' - a ham radio logger -
> > registered back in 2003. It showed not much activity besides a
> > moderate active mailing list.
> >
> > The development by the original author (Rein Couperus) stopped
> > around 2008 to 2010. At that time I took over further development.
> > But in later years we lost contact to Rein completely. (I just
> > wrote him some weeks ago to ask once more for a transfer of
> > administration rights to the project, but got no answer.)
> >
> > It would be nice if the group of current developers could get
> > control over the project contents on savannah and use it more than
> > just relying on the mail service.
> >  
> 
>  From this message, I did not understand what TLF is about. I
> searched for it in Free Software Foundation directory:
> 
> http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?search=tlf&fulltext=Search&title=Special%3ASearch
> 
> One match:
> 
> http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Tlf
> 
> Then I read there. The first thing written is a link for a zip file 
> hosted in Github.
> 
> Fiddling with this URL, I discovered that TLF was updated several
> times this year. Look at dates shown here:
> 
> https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/
> 
> And it was last updated this monday, as written here now:
> 
> https://github.com/Tlf/
> 
> So, the story about TLF has more details than it initially seemed to
> me.
> 
> And I am just a Savannah user that participates in this list, nothing 
> more - in case you wonder.
> 



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