Re: Adding git autoconf repository

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Sylvain Beucler on 9/19/2007 1:03 PM:
>>> Sylvain set it up for me/coreutils, so I don't have any experience.
>>> It may be documented.  I'll check that in a couple hours if Sylvain
>>> doesn't get to it first.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the Git repository itself, you now can create it by checking "Git"
>> in the Savane web interface, in Admin -> Select Features.
>
> Thanks, that worked; there was about a 30 minute delay between checking
> the box on the savannah admin page until the repository was actually
> initialized and ready for check-ins.
>
> However, the new repository (http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git)
> is not linked from git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb, and it still says
> "description  Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb." as
> well as being owned by root.
>
> How do I edit the autoconf.git/description file to put in a useful
> description?  I'm thinking:
> Autoconf      GNU Autoconf source repository

I've done that.

> And should we change the owner to me, since I did the initial import?

You decide.  We can always change it later.