[task #9829] Submission of DFILE Tools

[Matt McCutchen-8]

URL:
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                 Summary: Submission of DFILE Tools
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: kcrane
            Submitted on: Mon 26 Oct 2009 04:01:08 AM GMT
         Should Start On: Mon 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 AM GMT
   Should be Finished on: Thu 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM GMT
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             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=10376> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10376>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *DFILE Tools*
* System Name:  *dfiletools*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later

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==== Description: ====
Most UNIX distributions contain utilities such as sort and join that are
capable of performing typical processing operations on data in sequential
files. These utilities are well integrated into UNIX shell environments but
lack some desirable features needed in large batch processing applications.
Standard UNIX utilities do not allow data field values to be referenced by
field name. They require developers to reference data field values by numbers
that represent relative field position within records. This makes their use in
applications much less maintainable. Most standard UNIX data utilities were
initially developed when typical servers had single CPUs. Today, servers
commonly have multiple CPUs. To take advantage of new multi-processing
environments, features supporting scalable processing should be included in
utilities. Finally, records using traditional character delimited fields are
inherently inefficient to process. This record format requires every character
of data to be examined to identify field delimiters. A more processing
efficient record format is needed. DFILE Tools were created to address these
issues in batch processing applications on UNIX servers.

This project is developed in C and has been ported to FreeBSD/GNU, Linux/GNU,
AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.


==== Other Software Required: ====
zlib, www.zlib.net


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/dfile_tools.htm






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[Matt McCutchen-8]

Follow-up Comment #1, task #9829 (project administration):

Hi,

I'm confused. Is there a project tarball with code somewhere to download or
is all program code embedded in the website?

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Follow-up Comment #2, task #9829 (project administration):

Hi Sebastian,

Instead of submitting a tarball of C source code I submitted an HTML document
(dfile_tools.htm) that thoroughly describes the project. I thought Savannah's
project admin group would prefer to read documentation rather than browsing
thousands of lines of C code. The HTML file only contains documentation and
does not contain links to web sites.

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Follow-up Comment #3, task #9829 (project administration):

Hello,

the website is a nice introduction to users who want to learn about your
project.

But for the Savannah review process we must check the whole project. This is
because the review consists of a check whether all files are licensed
correctly, bear a copyright line, etc.

That's why we ask for a project tarball.

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Follow-up Comment #4, task #9829 (project administration):

I was unsure how to update the tarball URL. I submitted the actual source
code tarball as an attached file to this task. It is a tar file compressed
with gzip. GNU tar can extract files from it using 'tar xzf
dfiletools_20091031.tgz'.

(file #18965)
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Additional Item Attachment:

File name: dfiletools_20091031.tgz        Size:182 KB


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Update of task #9829 (project administration):

                  Status:                    None => Wait reply            
        Percent Complete:                      0% => 90%                    

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Follow-up Comment #5:

Attaching updated tarballs is fine.
I reviewed the project and ask you to please add copyright&license infos to
all handcrafted make&build scripts. Every non-trivial non-autogenerated file
should have these.

If you deem the GPL text to big for those, you could also take a simple
all-permissive license or even push them into public domain. But there needs
to be some statement about this.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html#License-Notices-for-Other-Files


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Follow-up Comment #6, task #9829 (project administration):

I attached another source code tarball to this task that contains copyright
and license information in make and build scripts.

(file #18976)
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Additional Item Attachment:

File name: dfiletools_20091102.tgz        Size:183 KB


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Update of task #9829 (project administration):

                  Status:              Wait reply => Done                  
        Percent Complete:                     90% => 100%                  
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Follow-up Comment #7:

Yes, that does the trick.
Enjoy maintaining your project on Savannah.



I've approved your project--welcome on board! :-)

You'll receive a mail notification with further instructions shortly.

--
Happy hacking!


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