Re: Moving Alexandria in the GNOME CVS

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 16:11, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 06:39:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Christian Rose wrote:
> > > I'm the author of Alexandria (http://alexandria.rubyforge.org) and I
> > > would like to propose its inclusion in the GNOME CVS.
> > > 
> > > The main reason is that it will be more convenient for the translation
> > > teams.  Also we would like to benefit of the developers tools.  All
> > > major contributors already have a CVS account.
> > 
> > If it's free software, not patent-encumbered, is using GNOME/GTK+
> > technologies, and has had a release, then I don't know what would be
> > stopping it from being hosted in GNOME CVS.
> > 
> > Also, noone has been objecting so far (at least not publically), so I
> > think it's safe to assume that it's OK with the community.
> 
> I hate to do this, but the name might be a problem. I have a 
> vague idea that scrollkeeper was originally to be called 
> Alexandria, undoubtedly for the same reasons. And that there
> was already a project using the same name. And scrollkeeper
> therefore couldn't use it.

Sourceforge's software is called alexandria, iirc. Since scrollkeeper is
hosted on sourceforge, that's a fairly good reason why they couldn't
have that name - it's something like project 1 in the database ;)

--
Andrew