Stephen> 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. Stephen> Read my post. I was quoting someone else. It also Stephen> describes my own experience. I do know that both Steve Stephen> Baur and I tried to log in and take ownership (at times Stephen> separated by several months) and could not. Pilot error, Stephen> maybe. Stephen> Freshmeat announcements at the time of the change to the Stephen> new system were _very_ discouraging about asking for Stephen> help; registrants were expected to take ownership Stephen> themselves, as I recall. I tried, failed, and postponed Stephen> 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 APA> job? Stephen> Something very weird is going on here. Stephen> AFAICT that user is already registered (since 1998) and Stephen> owns the XEmacs project registration, but nobody knows Stephen> who it is. ISTR I tried mailing to xemacs＠freshmeat and Stephen> it bounced, but I can't find the bounce so maybe I didn't Stephen> (usually I keep such things). Should that be expected to Stephen> "work"? Stephen, have you read your mail yet, today, before writing this? The new user is XEmacs, not xemacs and we have the password. Stephen> They seem to be updating the page too, since it says the Stephen> current beta is 21.5.6, which is only about 3 days old! I did that, and got thru freshmeat approval quickly. I think weŽre running out of things to argue about :-) Best regards, Adrian Stephen> I didn't have anything to do with "xemacs". Steve Baur Stephen> (slb＠freshmeat) didn't create it, or remember anybody Stephen> mentioning creating it, either. AFAIK Martin Buchholz Stephen> had nothing to do with it. Jeff> Whoever wants it just has to click on the "change owner" Jeff> link on the "[Project]" menu. Stephen> This has been tried, several times. Stephen> Steve said he tried it. When the issue came up a year Stephen> ago, I registered the account "xemacadm" and attempted to Stephen> transfer ownership to it. This was flat-out refused by Stephen> the 'bot, as the project registration was already Stephen> "owned". Stephen> Evidently procedures have changed, since this time I got Stephen> the polite message about maybe being the legitimate owner Stephen> or new maintainer. I've submitted a request. Maybe that Stephen> will flush out "xemacs". -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/ --- Headers Follow --- Return-Path: <Adrian.Aichner(a)T-Online.De&gt; Delivered-To: news-admins(a)freshmeat.net Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.freshmeat.net [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.freshmeat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0837C82F91 for <news-admins(a)freshmeat.net>; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 02:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mail.freshmeat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B6882F91 for <news-admins(a)freshmeat.net>; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 02:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16uSXM-0005KD-0A; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 08:21:56 +0200 Received: from D5DC120J.t-online.de (520002458184-0001(a)[80.128.52.139]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16uSXF-0X8OO0C; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:21:49 +0200 To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; Cc: Jeff Covey via RT <news-admins(a)freshmeat.net&gt;, XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Subject: Re: [fm #14122] (news-admins) Submission report - XEmacs References: <20020406140701.3756082F93(a)mail.freshmeat.net&gt; <876632lxgw.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; X-Face: 4[iHdXiTu\V3u[~\I)<f9HC);%~nG8`oUqv#uzvs6=\V{AjN6Sn c/qi;YLwRmEbt8Y*=j5n(urqY＠chPh＠J'D"QlqD!C8>*}#kYF[-tYl3VZga/HSOP|K,{L Rtu＠f0y/=O&Cu}\:~d|P$JON?pn?j,&CnPb1z#/TL9bkAJwyol&a:SvYj-VYbM=Dtxhk9 =w|R6U3_;SH&B<Mfy6Q%# X-Attribution: APA From: Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; Organization: The XEmacs Project Date: 08 Apr 2002 08:23:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <876632lxgw.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; Message-ID: <6632wvxj.fsf(a)smtprelay.t-online.de&gt; Lines: 79 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (beets) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 520002458184-0001(a)t-dialin.net -------------------------------------------- Managed by Request Tracker