Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Hacking on Savane - where to start?

[beuc]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of the Savane source code, and I have decided to
merge it with the FusionForge project.

This is an on-going work with a conversion script at:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/savane-cleanup.git/tree/sv2ff/

However, I can't complete this alone, so this project needs more
people from the Savannah community.

Cheers!
Sylvain

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 07:06:32AM +0300, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello Karl,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> On 08/04/2014 04:04 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> >There is no easy place.  Info, such as it is, is at
> >http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToBecomeASavannahHacker
> 
> I read the wiki pages, things make much more sense now.
> >I gather you are looking at the "savane" project page,
> >http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/savane
> 
> Indeed, I am more interested in the Savannah (Savane?) frontend/backend code 
> than in the Savannah administration tasks.
> 
> >
> >Other projects, notably including "savane", are not relevant to hacking
> >live Savannah.  I added a note to that effect in the "savane"
> >description.  (I thought we had it there before, but I guess not, or it
> >got deleted, or something.)
> >
> >Part of the problem is that the overall situation is so murky.  If I
> >knew precisely where everything was and how it was used, I would write
> >it down, but I don't, and the reality is that researching all that is
> >part of what any savannah contributor must do to succeed.  Sad but true.
> >There is no especially low-hanging fruit.
> >
> 
> If I may ask - is there an interest in working on the front-end code or the 
> back-end architecture?
> Or is there already an active on-going project?
> Or is there an interest but no time / developers ?
> Or no interest?
> I didn't completely understand from the statement about "FusionForge" what is 
> the situation.
> I tried testing "savane" locally and failed, but now I realized it's 
> "savane-cleanup" perhaps that should be used?
> 
> Thanks,
>  - Assaf