Re: [H-source-users] future development on savannah

[Ian Gilfillan]

Welcome back Antonio, and thanks for adding me as an administrator to 
h-source and h-client!

A couple more requests - please add me as an administrator, as well as 
give me access to the administration interface, on the mailing list at 
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/h-source-users (and perhaps 
also https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/h-source-usuarios) so 
that at least there's a backup for these as well.

Great to see the interest from others too. I have very little time to 
work on h-source, but I've been happy to keep h-node ticking along, 
mostly trivial changes, such as adding new operating systems to the 
list, and, as an administrator on the website, fighting spam.

The main issue is that h-node and h-source are quite far out of sync. 
When I first started contributing, h-node had changes that weren't on 
h-source, and h-source had had major changes to the framework that 
weren't on h-node. I spent some time trying to bring the two back into 
sync, but wasn't comfortable uploading major changes to h-node which 
were not simply updates to what was on h-node, and that I hadn't written 
and didn't understand.

I've been considering simply uploading the h-node version to h-source so 
that anyone wanting to test and contribute at least has the actual 
version running on h-node as a good base to start from. Any objections 
to this suggestion? It will roll back a lot of the framework changes 
from h-source, but once this is done, someone with the time can look at 
working with Antonio to integrate the latest EasyGiant framework. 
Getting things running smoothly on PHP7.x is long overdue.

The other main task that's needed is to boost the anti-spam protection 
on the site. Currently spam gets heavy at times, and removing it is 
quite tedious.

There are also quite a few open issues that could be looked at, as well 
as moving to git.

From the user side, I am always surprised that the site gets so little 
usage. Even FSF-certified hardware does not always get added, so that's 
an area for someone to tackle - spreading the word and improving the 
number of entries in the database.





On 2019/03/16 02:31, John Sullivan wrote:
> Damien Zammit <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hey Ian,
> >
> > On 16/03/19 05:11, antonio gallo wrote:
> > > Ok I will try tomorrow thanks
> > >
> > > Il ven 15 mar 2019, 01:33 bill-auger ha scritto:
> > > > is it possible to add some administrator to the account?
> > Looks like you have been added as an admin to h-source on savannah 
> > finally!
> >
> > Do you know if there is any way we can migrate the subversion repo to a
> > git based one and still have it hosted on savannah?