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This page describes the development services available for GNU developers on GNU Project machines. If you would like to make use of one of these service for development of a GNU package, please contact the address listed for the particular service.
With the abundance of inexpensive computers that can run GNU/Linux, as well as the greater availability of Internet access, many GNU volunteers today have all the computer facilities they need. However, there are still advantages to having a central computers where GNU volunteers can work together without having to make their own machines accessible to others.
For that reason, the Free Software Foundation encourages GNU software
projects to use the machines at gnu.org as a home base.
Using these machines also benefits the GNU Project indirectly, by
increasing public awareness of GNU, and spreading the idea of working
together for the benefit of everyone.
We give out login access to the GNU machines to people who need them for work on GNU software. Having a login account is both a privilege and a responsibility, and they should be used only for your work on GNU. If you don't have an account and you need one, please contact accounts@gnu.org.
We provide remote CVS access for several GNU packages; if you are developing a GNU package and would like to keep the repository on the gnu.org machines, Savannah offers an easy way to create and manage it. First create yourself an account and then register your GNU package. Within a few hours the CVS repository will be created. You will be able to write into it and manage the list of people who have write access to it by yourself.
A number of projects are already using Savannah for this purpose.
The following sites mirror a portion of the GNU CVS repository:
:pserver:anoncvs@duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp:/usr/local/cvsrootgnumach, hurd, mig
:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.ffii.org:/var/cvslibtool
In order to allow mirrors to have direct repository access, we provide an
anonymous rsync server at
rsync://subversions.gnu.org/cvs/. Please contact
<cvs-hackers@gnu.org> if
you would like to mirror part or all of the GNU CVS repository, so that we
can add your name to the above list.
We operate mailing lists for GNU software packages as needed, including both hand-managed lists and automatically managed lists. Ask new-mailing-list@gnu.org to create lists for you, or create them yourself if you're sure you know how.
In general, each GNU software package ought to have a bug-reporting
list with the canonical name bug-name@gnu.org,
plus whatever other aliases may be useful. Some packages share the
list bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org but we now encourage packages
to set up their own individual lists.
Packages can have other lists for announcements, for asking for help, for posting related source code, for discussion among users, or whatever the package maintainer thinks is useful.
When a mailing list becomes large enough to justify it, we can set up
a gnu.* newsgroup with a two-way link to the mailing list.
Our master web server is located at http://www.gnu.org/, and has mirrors around the world. We would like to host pages on this server about each and every GNU software package.
The machine which serves the www.gnu.org web pages is
separate from the rest of the GNU machines. The web is stored in a CVS
repository on subversions.gnu.org. Each GNU package
registered on Savannah is
granted a write access to the /software/package
directory. For an example on how to access it, check the CVS page of
the GNU mifluz package.
We can also provide an FTP site for any GNU software package on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/, which
is mirrored worldwide. Contact ftp-upload@gnu.org if you would like
to use this site as the distribution center for your package.
We use a different server for test releases, so that people won't
install them thinking they are ready for prime time. This server is
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/.
Contact ftp-upload@gnu.org if you
would like to use this site to distribute pretests of your package.
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to gnu@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the FSF.
Please send comments on these web pages to webmasters@www.gnu.org, send other questions to gnu@gnu.org.
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Updated: $Date: 2001/06/26 18:05:55 $ $Author: bkuhn $