Re: [Savannah-hackers] [gnu.org #212478] where to send project for evaluation?

[Sylvain Beucler via RT]

Hi,

On second though, I think I have a more precise question: should we do
any preprocessing in the GNU Evaluation process (aside from the
Savannah evaluation itself)? I mean, determining whether to send a
project to you is a form of "preprocessing".

So:

- either we do not forward you project without code; this will not
  take us long to add a note when approving the project, but we may
  act differenly than you would

- either we forward you any project wanting to be GNU (as long as it
  is approved at Savannah) without trying to see if it is worth doing
  so; you'll take care of telling them whether you need code or not

What do you prefer?

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:02:01PM -0400, Karl Berry via RT wrote:
> Hi Sylvain and all,
> 
> Although the eval team has a procedure for helping authors with software
> in early stages, I'm not sure if such a package could actually be
> officially dubbed.  We'd have to ask rms for a definitive answer, if
> it's important.  My personal view is that it would be pretty meaningless
> to dub something GNU before it is written -- that could lead to GNU
> vaporware.  Coming up with big and brilliant plans is (usually) not the
> hard part.
> 
> On the other hand, if there is a reasonable amount of code, even if it
> is not releasable or even necessarily compilable, then that can be
> enough (though certainly not ideal).  For example, that oxygen package
> you just sent through mentioned a url to the source, so I figure he's
> somewhat further along than just planning.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Best,