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sr #111226: Please change jcal repository and website owner

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 13 Apr 2025 01:31:36 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Webpages repositories Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  In Progress
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  ineiev
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Mon 21 Apr 2025 04:45:41 PM UTC, comment #3: 

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 02:55:13AM -0400, Hossein wrote:

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> Given the xz attack I totally understand your concern. I signed up using my
> academic email, tied to my real identity. I can also provide further
> guarantees if needed.


To tell the truth, our concerns dwell in a somewhat different plain.  Savannah has a few hosting requirements to be followed by the admins of the hosted packages, and they are surprisingly hard to follow for the newcomers.  Still our users expect that these packages live up to these standards, so we need to make sure that the admins who take over orphan groups are able to comply with them.

> Note that due to a bug (https://github.com/persiancal/jcal/pull/15) in the old
> code, it is one day behind the real date. If we could make distroes benefit
> from the new code, it'd be great.


On the other hand, it seems possible to me that after all these years of discontinued maintenance the Savannah jcal group isn't actually the 'upstream' for the distros any more, that is,

  • updates in it will not be automatically accepted by the distros, and
  • the distros may accept bug fixes from other sources.


Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Sun 20 Apr 2025 06:55:07 AM UTC, comment #2: 

comment #1:

> Thank you for your work on this package.  Your request isn't trivial; please let people behind Savannah discuss it internally to make the right decision.


Given the xz attack I totally understand your concern. I signed up using my academic email, tied to my real identity. I can also provide further guarantees if needed.

Note that due to a bug (https://github.com/persiancal/jcal/pull/15) in the old code, it is one day behind the real date. If we could make distroes benefit from the new code, it'd be great.

Thanks for considering this.

Hossein <hossein>
Wed 16 Apr 2025 03:26:49 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thank you for your work on this package.  Your request isn't trivial; please let people behind Savannah discuss it internally to make the right decision.

Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Sun 13 Apr 2025 01:31:36 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi!

I am an Iranian student. Currently nongnu.org hosts an important piece of software for Iranian people called 'jcal'. Here's the link: https://www.nongnu.org/jcal/

However due to an unfortunate accident the owner of this repo, a prominent figure in Iranian free software, has died:
Source 1: https://jadi.net/2017/10/ashkan-ghasemi/
Source 2: https://meidaan.com/ashkan
Source 3: https://mehdix.ir/rip-ashkan.html

You can use Google Translate or an AI of your choosing to translate the sources above (which are actually quite old now), or just search فوت اشکان قاسمی (Death of Ashkan Ghasemi) by yourself.

I would be very grateful if you let me (based in Iran), or the person behind https://github.com/persiancal (based in Berlin) take ownership of the repo. Currently NixOS is using the new version of the tool, however for effective and more expedient adoption it'd be awesome if you could handle the ownership change.

Many thanks,
Hossein.

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