Re: [Introspector-developers] Introspector Status Report 18 Nov. 2002

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

Stepen,

Thanks for your support. 
I have submitted here to get into savannah :
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/savannah-hackers/2002-April/007285.html

and again for the GNUVCG.

The introspector was held up because the sources were not all GPLEd,
I have to resubmit. The GNUVCG is awaiting approval for the name.

You are right, I should push to get this into savannah, alot harder.


--- Stephen Compall <ru...@si...> wrote:
> James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > The sourceforge server has been down for a move, and I have been in
> > contact with the debian-sf (debian sourceforge) project about
> finding a
> > new host. The server objectweb. http://debian-sf.objectweb.org/
> might
> > be a possible new home, if not savannah itself.
> 
> Sorry to pipe in here, but this has been sitting in my head for some 
> time. 

Please feel free to speak your mind.

>As the FSF has been in some cases hostile to your project,
> James, 
> in my observation at least, it would be an excellent challenge to 
> Savannah's intended role in the community to add Introspector to its 
> project rolls.

Yes!

I have to admit that I have provoked some negativity to begin with, 
it seems that now we have found a happy medium, and with more people
interested in the project, it will be hard to stop now.

But, I still have the mail from RMS asking me to delete the project,
and let me tell you, he has tried this on a number of people.

> 
> To explain: as I recall, Savannah was originally created in response
> to 
> the "closing" of SF, as well as to answer the need for a
> free-software 
> community counterpart to the OSI-community's SF. GNU, as the host, is
> of 
> course allowed to lay out the ground rules for such a system (GNU
> in/not 
> in project name, GPL-compatible licensing, etc.). However, to allow a
> 
> free community of various projects, it must be willing to accept
> those 
> projects that do not seem to be in line with goals elsewhere in the
> GNU 
> organization; namely, the GCC project. (Though this has changed, no?)

A bit, they are not going to try and stop me.

> 
> So the offering of the Introspector project proposal to Savannah
> might 
> prove interesting. It might offer Savannah a chance to show whether
> it 
> was for the community, or whether it would be susceptible to the
> whims 
> of GNU leaders. A political test case for Savannah, if you will.
> 
> Personally, I feel that they will demonstrate the former. Then again,
> I 
> am usually confident that GNU is doing/will do the right thing.

yes, well I am waiting for the VCG for now,
that is needed and wanted by the fsf, and the gcc developers.

As soon as we get the introspector source in a bit more cleaned up
state, I will resubmit it. First i want to finish this mingw32 port,
and then I will start really hacking at the perl code.


thanks again,

mike

=====
James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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