[task #9828] Submission of gArch GNU/Linux

[Christophe Combelles-4]

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                 Summary: Submission of gArch GNU/Linux
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: azag
            Submitted on: Mon Oct 26 01:44:12 2009
         Should Start On: Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 2009
   Should be Finished on: Thu Nov  5 00:00:00 2009
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10375> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10375>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *gArch GNU/Linux*
* System Name:  *garch*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (The other package of the
system license)

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==== Description: ====
A distribution based on Arch 100% free.


==== Other Software Required: ====
A distribution based on Arch 100% free.


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://www.puntolibre.org/garch/






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[Christophe Combelles-4]

Follow-up Comment #1, task #9828 (project administration):

Thanks for submitting this and for your work making another free distro, but
as far as I know it's savannah's policy not to host full distros.  If that has
changed, I'm sure one of the other savannah hackers will speak up.

Best,
Karl



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Follow-up Comment #2, task #9828 (project administration):

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October 29th 2009 in Savannah Administration tracker item #9828:
"Submission of Submission of gArch GNU/Linux"

In that case i suggest to add at the hosting requirements page
something like "plese note than we do not host full distributions even
if they are fully free".
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[Christophe Combelles-4]

Follow-up Comment #3, task #9828 (project administration):

We will not upload the full distro, only some package (like IceCat,
Linux-Libre and some parts of the ISO), we will use Savannah like project
manager (bugs, taks, etc).

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[Christophe Combelles-4]

Follow-up Comment #4, task #9828 (project administration):

I don't know the policy for using savannah trackers only.  Sylvain or anyone,
do you have any clarification of distros on savannah in general?

However, it doesn't make sense to me to support uploading only "part" of a
distro.  That seems much worse than having the whole thing.


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[Christophe Combelles-4]

Follow-up Comment #5, task #9828 (project administration):

We don't host distros mainly because we check the licensing, and that
represents to much work if it's more than a single project.

The disk-space/bandwidth is not exactly designed for a distro either.

We have accepted projects for distros, but they were used to host
distro-specific tools, and _no_ packages.

I don't think we need a policy for projects that only use part of our
service. Our only requirement in that regard, is that we don't want to be used
a mere mirror for data hosted somewhere else.


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Follow-up Comment #6, task #9828 (project administration):

The only package we will upload are the kernel (Linux-libre) and some other
well know as free like IceCat and Gnash. But if that is a problem we can use
other server for the package, we need from savannah mainly the task and bug
manager.

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Follow-up Comment #7, task #9828 (project administration):

Sylvain,

Clearly, I would not expect savannah-hackers to check each package of a
distro.  But if a distro is accepted/listed as free on the GNU web pages, it
seems we would not have to.

The disk space/bandwidth criteria is a different story, and that is fine.

However, what remains is that none of the requirements pages talk about
distros as far as I can see.  What's needed is not a policy for projects using
only some of our features, but a statement about distro hosting that is easier
to find than old mail archives.



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Follow-up Comment #8, task #9828 (project administration):

Rafik -- why do you want to upload a few packages?  What good does that do
you?  Clearly, you have to have hosting for all the packages, somewhere.  So
why split them up?

Besides that, do you have any web pages that state your distro policies?
(Only free software, no blobs, the usual.)


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Follow-up Comment #9, task #9828 (project administration):

Karl,
We are starting with the distro, organizing the web site, talking with some
organizations to get a repo, etc.
Our policies are only free software, thats include we will not use the linux
kernel, we will use Linux-libre.

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Follow-up Comment #10, task #9828 (project administration):

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November 1sr 2009 in Savannah Administration tracker item #9828:
"Submission of Submission of gArch GNU/Linux"

¿Why do you want to host Linux-libre Gnash and IceCat on savannah and
not with the rest of the packages?. Host some packges on savannah and
the rest in another place IMO is pointless.
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Follow-up Comment #11, task #9828 (project administration):

Linux-libre and IceCat we have to make the package, the rest of them we can't
get it from Arch.

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Follow-up Comment #12, task #9828 (project administration):

Linux-libre and IceCat we have to make the package, the rest of them we can
get it from Arch.*

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