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task #5147: Submission of vile, a vi-compatible text editor

Submitter:  Paul Fox <pgf>
Submitted:  Wed 11 Jan 2006 08:40:23 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 11 Jan 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 21 Jan 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  kickino Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 12 Jan 2006 08:15:37 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.


Thank you very much. :-)


I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.

Feel free to open support requests because of your mailing lists.
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=administration

Regards.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 11 Jan 2006 08:40:23 PM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or discard 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" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=8266>


######### REGISTRATION DETAILS #########

Full Name:
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  vile, a vi-compatible text editor

System Group Name:
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  vile

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  this project is mature -- it is the vi-compatible text editor known as "vile".  vile is GPL'ed, and is included in current debian releases as "free".

what the vile project needs is better mailing list support.  our lists are low traffic (announcements, the occasional bug report, the occasional user help request) and a place to keep a placeholder web page.  these two things exist now, hosted on a server in my basement, but the lists are based on ezmlm and are very clunky, and i really can't see doing the upgrades necessary to turn them into Mailman while still keeping them in my home.

as for the web page, the current web page lives at http://www.vile.cx -- we currently have the vile.cx domain gratis, from the Christmas Islands, but that could change any time.  losing the name would not be a big loss -- having vile hosted on a well-known site such as nongnu.org would be much more valuable.

software development would probably continue to be done "off-site", though that's not my call.  my current involvement in the project (though i'm the original author) is more administrative.

the code currently lives (and will probably remain) here, if you want to see it:
  http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html


Other Software Required:
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  none.  vile runs on any vanilla unix or unix-like system.  (it also runs on VMS, Win32, DOS, and probably others.)


Other Comments:
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  this is a repeat registration -- see task #5042.  the savannah responses to my earlier registration were mistakenly filed on my system as spam, and the error wasn't discovered until your final "we're closing this request" message.  many apologies.

i see from your messages (that i've now found) that you had two questions.  1) as for referring to"linux" as "GNU/linux", it's probably easier to just refer to it as a "unix-like" operating system.  our requirements of the system are very are low.  2) you're welcome to examine our source code at any time.  i understand if you'd like to delay that until we someday request to host our code at savannah.  in the meantime, all we need is mailing list support.

thanks very much, and again, i'm very sorry for the extra work this duplicate registration has caused.

paul



Paul Fox <pgf>

 

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