Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah hosting request

[Karl Berry]

Hi Benedict,

Thanks for offering to help!

What's required as far as new project submissions go is to apply the
(stringent) Savannah requirements to new submissions:
https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php

With more details:
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly 

For even more details, there is "Mario's guide" at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2010-08/msg00026.html

The basic idea is to carefully go through the tarball and look for
problems.  The most likely are 1) missing/wrong copyright notices,
and 2) use of "Linux" for the system instead of "GNU/Linux",
or "open source" (vs. "free software").  As you can imagine, it is
pretty laborious.

(We have a fossology installation available that might be able to help
in the future, but haven't got that whole process worked out.)

If this sounds ok, we'll go forward.  As it happens, I'm going to be
gone the next three days (back Saturday), but perhaps one of the other
new, or old, volunteers :) can move things along.

Thanks again,
karl