Re: [fm #14122] (news-admins) Submission report - XEmacs

stephen(a)xemacs.org wrote (Sat, Apr 6 2002 02:01:55): APA> I don't know who submitted our entry at freshmeat. Stephen> Nobody does. According to Steve Baur it was submitted by Stephen> a third party, and freshmeat either can't or wouldn't Stephen> tell us who it was, Stephen> and would not transfer it to us. Jeff> I don't know where you got this idea. Read my post. I was quoting someone else. It also describes my own experience. I do know that both Steve Baur and I tried to log in and take ownership (at times separated by several months) and could not. Pilot error, maybe. Freshmeat announcements at the time of the change to the new system were _very_ discouraging about asking for help; registrants were expected to take ownership themselves, as I recall. I tried, failed, and postponed what promised to be a moderately annoying dialogue. APA> Is it possible to give ownership to a user like XEmacs (or APA> xemacs) so that XEmacs Review Board members can rotate the job? Something very weird is going on here. AFAICT that user is already registered (since 1998) and owns the XEmacs project registration, but nobody knows who it is. ISTR I tried mailing to xemacs＠freshmeat and it bounced, but I can't find the bounce so maybe I didn't (usually I keep such things). Should that be expected to "work"? They seem to be updating the page too, since it says the current beta is 21.5.6, which is only about 3 days old! I didn't have anything to do with "xemacs". Steve Baur (slb＠freshmeat) didn't create it, or remember anybody mentioning creating it, either. AFAIK Martin Buchholz had nothing to do with it. Jeff> Whoever wants it just has to click on the "change owner" Jeff> link on the "[Project]" menu. This has been tried, several times. Steve said he tried it. When the issue came up a year ago, I registered the account "xemacadm" and attempted to transfer ownership to it. This was flat-out refused by the 'bot, as the project registration was already "owned". Evidently procedures have changed, since this time I got the polite message about maybe being the legitimate owner or new maintainer. I've submitted a request. Maybe that will flush out "xemacs". -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.