Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] "or any later" clause mandatory?

[Sebastian Gerhardt]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 18:29 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:

> It also leads to
> http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly.
> which although is explicitly not the hosting policy, is more detailed
> and useful than the actual policy for submitters, it seems to me.  I've
> never been sure what to do about this discrepancy, but it's always
> seemed troublesome to me.  Sigh.  Separate issue, I know.

Who was it who introduced and wrote the Savannah requirements? I'd like
to ask this person to resolve that discrepancy.



> Anyway, I don't see anything about distros on either of those pages, and
> doing some searches didn't turn it up either.
> 
> Searching the mailing list archives, I found some responses.  See for
> example http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7043, which says:
> 
>     As mentioned in the registration pages, we do not host complete
>     distros, distros isos, packages repositories, etc, for space and
>     bandwidth reasons. We may just offer support for organisational
>     purpose and dedicated software (such as iso creation scripts).
> 
> (This same text is in replies to several old requests.)  But I could not
> the right "registration pages".  
> 
> Also, if it's about space and bandwidth, then supporting partial distro
> uploads (of certain packages, as mentioned in this latest request) seems
> like it would be allowed.  Hmm.

It would also a hell of a job for the reviewer to check thousand of
packages for compliance, if I may add. :)