Re: Common-lisp.net

Quoting Nikodemus Siivola ([email protected]):
| [ Apologies to those who get this twice. ]
| 
| As seen on cll:
| 
| "It is a pleasure to announce
| 
| http://common-lisp.net,
| 
| a web-site dedicated to providing the Common Lisp community with
| development resources, including CVS, FTP, mailing lists, and
| web-space.
| 
| Future plans include Subversion and Arch support, co-operation with
| other related projects, plus news and articles (authors are welcome!)."

What I miss on the site is the following:

- Names of the project members and sponsors, ie who is running things

- What open source/free projects can get hosting?  DFSG?  Wider than
  DFSG?  Stricter than DFSG? 'Hosting decisions are made on
  case-by-case basis.' is fine, but some examples of accepted licences
  would be nice.

- Can projects hosted elsewhere use one or more of the services on
  common-lisp.net

- How about VHOSTs for the webspace?

- How about cron-jobs, e.g for rsync of cclan?  

| CCLAN is definitely a project we (Common-lisp.net) would like to
| co-operate with. 
| 
| Possibilities include:
| 
|  * CCLAN node at ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/cclan/
| 
|  * Semi-automatic inclusion of projects hosted at Common-lisp.net to
|    CCLAN: hosted projects fullfilling CCLAN requirements would be
|    provided a mechanism for making releases into CCLAN without
|    human intervention (or whatever amount of human intervention
|    is considered necessary for safety).
| 
| The first is probably a relatively simple matter, but the second would
| require among other things a common aproach to project names.
| 
| Before boring everyone with my own thoughts on this I'd like to hear
| if CCLAN folks consider either option in the least viable.

It's viable, but I suspect we need to know more about the above
questions.  And how to administer CCLAN isn't necessarily set in stone
yet. 

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