Re: October 5th meeting reminder and agenda

David Graham - SPI Secretary writes ("October 5th meeting reminder and agenda"):
> The next board meeting will take place at 19:00 UTC on October 5th, 2004

I see that there's an item there about OpenC++, in the form of
(apparently) an email from Grzegorz Jakacki. I would like to ask him
a few questions but I don't have his email address.

Could we please discuss this on the board list at least a little bit ?

Last time we postponed it because we hadn't done our homework. It
would be a shame to do the same thing again.

Has anyone even replied to the mail I see there ?

Ian.

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Ian Jackson wrote:
> David Graham - SPI Secretary writes ("October 5th meeting reminder and agenda"):
> > The next board meeting will take place at 19:00 UTC on October 5th, 2004
>
> I see that there's an item there about OpenC++, in the form of
> (apparently) an email from Grzegorz Jakacki. I would like to ask him
> a few questions but I don't have his email address.

This message was forwarded to the board list at least once before. I sent
him one reply inviting him to a meeting and never received a reply.
Message follows:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:42:42 +0800
From: Grzegorz Jakacki <refactor(at)staryhutong(dot)com>
To: secretary(at)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Hosting a project at SPI

Hello,

My name is Grzegorz Jakacki, I am a team leader of OpenC++ software
project (opencxx.sourceforge.net). OpenC++ is a mature open-source C++
program transformation framework, distributed under non-copyleft
open-source license.

I am writting to solicit information about possibility of winning support
of Software in Public Interest for OpenC++.

Recently I worked together with Stefan Seefeld who is a project leader of
Synopsis, a project hosted at SPI. Synopsis is in part based on OpenC++,
and recently Stefan and myself came to conclusion that the common part of
those two could and should be factored out and extended into reusable
library, nicknamed OpenC++ Core.

As Synopsis is hosted at SPI it would help if OpenC++ Core could be hosted
here too. Thus my question is how should OpenC++ Core project apply for
hosting at SPI, what information should it provide to support application,
and what is an expected timeframe for SPI to decide on this matter.

Thank you
Grzegorz

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> Could we please discuss this on the board list at least a little bit ?

I've posted a couple of reminders to that effect in the last 8 weeks..

> Last time we postponed it because we hadn't done our homework. It
> would be a shame to do the same thing again.
>
> Has anyone even replied to the mail I see there ?

Yes, see above. I replied inviting him to the October meeting but have
heard nothing further.

---
David Graham, SPI Secretary
cdlu(at)spi-inc(dot)org D5F45889

Grzegorz Jakacki wrote, a long time ago:
> My name is Grzegorz Jakacki, I am a team leader of OpenC++ software
> project (opencxx.sourceforge.net). OpenC++ is a mature open-source C++
> program transformation framework, distributed under non-copyleft
> open-source license.

I'm sorry we've spent so long procrastinating.

Can I ask how many developers you currently have working regularly on
your project ? What other Free Software projects exist that build on
your framework, aside from Synopsis ? I'm trying to get an idea of
the significance of the project.

> I am writting to solicit information about possibility of winning support
> of Software in Public Interest for OpenC++.

Right.

> Recently I worked together with Stefan Seefeld who is a project leader of
> Synopsis, a project hosted at SPI. Synopsis is in part based on OpenC++,
> and recently Stefan and myself came to conclusion that the common part of
> those two could and should be factored out and extended into reusable
> library, nicknamed OpenC++ Core.

Good.

> As Synopsis is hosted at SPI it would help if OpenC++ Core could be hosted
> here too. Thus my question is how should OpenC++ Core project apply for
> hosting at SPI, what information should it provide to support application,
> and what is an expected timeframe for SPI to decide on this matter.

Are you just looking for CVS hosting, domain hosting, mailing lists,
and the like ?

Thanks,
Ian.