Re: [gnu-advisory] Fwd: [sr #110460] My project has been lost?

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hello Jaime.

Thanks for reaching us.
We will look into this and be back to you soon.

> Dear GNU-Advisory and RMS,
>
> I have been suggested to contact you as I think Savannah is not managing my
> case in a fair way.
>
> If you use 5 min to read this email thread you will see that and
> administrator of Savannah has deleted the full KLog project, including
> about 16 years of commits, releases and mailing list archives just because
> some files of *another* *project* had the GPL headers missing in some files.
>
> Without any warning this admin simply removed ALL our work in the KLog
> project what is against the own Savannah best practices.
>
> Unfortunately the admin is even not answering my questions when they are
> related to KLog.
>
> I really think that this has been just an error, but errors must be solved
> and processes improved to prevent those errors to happen again.
>
> I am writing to you to ask for your support to recover KLog or at least to
> get a confirmation that I have been kicked out of Savannah and I need to
> look another place to publish KLog after so many happy years in Savannah.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time.
>
> Jaime
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> De: Jaime Robles <jaime@robles.es>
> Date: jue., 25 mar. 2021 19:50
> Subject: Re: [sr #110460] My project has been lost?
> To: Ineiev <ineiev@gnu.org>
> Cc: <savannah-help-public@gnu.org>, <savannah-hackers@gnu.org>
>
>
> Good evening,
>
> The ticket has been closed but I really think that the question about the
> KLog project removal after possibly 16 years, loosing those 16 years of
> releases, commits and mailing list archives deserves a better answer than I
> warned that another project was not including the copyright header in some
> files and therefore I remove all your projects, not only the one that was
> not fulfilling 100%.
>
> I really believe that Savannah should not act this way with the hosted
> projects, for the benefit of Savannah.
>
> Is it possible  to at least, answer my questions to the previous email?
>
> Thank for your time.
>
> Jaime
>
> El lun., 22 mar. 2021 16:57, Jaime Robles <jaime@robles.es> escribió:
>
>> Hello, good afternoon.
>>
>> Is there any chance to recover the KLog project or should I simply assume
>> the lost of the repositories?
>> KLog's users are asking about and I don't know if I need to look for
>> another home of KLog or not.
>>
>> However I was reading through Savannah and what I found is that Savannah
>> should not remove projects.
>> Even KMeter should stay but definitely KLog should not have been removed.
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/RemovingProject/
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CodeOfConduct/
>>
>> My only intention is to keep coding free software not discussing, my
>> limited time is not for discussing. :-)
>>
>> I have been developing KLog for close to 20 years, most of them hosting in
>> Savannah and I had not a single complain in terms of licensing.
>>
>> So, if Savannah considers that the you will not host KLog anymore, I only
>> ask for a confirmation and the reasons for it.
>>
>> I choosed Savannah not for its services but for the meaning of having my
>> free software hosted here, to show my support to this community.
>>
>> I have a copy of all my sources, I can move away, but I liked the idea of
>> supporting Savannah publishing my code here.
>>
>> So I just need to know if KLog has been kicked off or it is just a mistake
>> that has a simple solution :-)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jaime
>>
>> El lun., 22 mar. 2021 13:44, Ineiev <ineiev@gnu.org> escribió:
>>
>>> Hello, Jaime;
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Jaime Robles wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Could you please tell me when you or any other Savannah admin has ever
>>> sent
>>> > a warning on KLog?
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, I sent no notices about it apart from those in task #15622,
>>>
>>> | Please be sure to fix these issues... in other your packages
>>> | hosted in Savannah.
>>>
>>