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task #5862: Submission of Apso

Submitter:  Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini>
Submitted:  Thu 31 Aug 2006 10:50:38 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Thu 31 Aug 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sun 10 Sep 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  sp Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 02 Sep 2006 06:48:45 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.
However, there are a few problems and we expect you to fix before uploading your project to Savannah. These problems are described below.


First of all, the texi file in doc/ is missing both its copyright and permission-to-copy headers. These have to be present as headers in the source file of your document.


In addition, please add a copy of the FDL (available from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html in various formats) as a section of your work.

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#SEC4

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html also covers additional points, including a smaller notice that you can use in auxiliary files.

Regards.

Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Sat 02 Sep 2006 11:49:16 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hm, one more comment:
You can see I already have a site for the project, and a Monotone server. However, I don't have a mailing list and bug-tracking system.
The plan is to use Savannah's mailing list, bug tracking system, and to distribute the tarball through Savannah (because of the bandwidth).

Thanks,
J.

Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini>
Fri 01 Sep 2006 01:04:05 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Oops!
I forgot to mention: Apso is written in C++, except for some 80 (or 100?) lines of C code. It can be compiled with g++ and gcc 4.1.


Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini>
Thu 31 Aug 2006 10:50:38 AM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION


While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group Administration" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8753>


REGISTRATION DETAILS


Full Name:
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  Apso

System Group Name:
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  apso

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  Apso is a framework for adding secrecy to distributed version control systems by creating encrypted versions of repositories. This makes it possible to keep repositories in hostile hosts. Apso supports pluggable version control systems and cryptographic libraries.

The only version control system supported at this point is Monotone; and the only cryptographic library is Nettle.

Apso can be found (source only) here:
http://aleph0.info/apso

Other Software Required:
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  * Boost (http://boost.org)

And the plugins are:


Other Comments:
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  This comment is probably not necessary, but I'd like to include it anyway, since a few Free Software developers have informally said to me that they don't think Apso is interesting for Free Software users and developers.

Although it may seem that Apso is not good for Free software (because it "helps hide source code", I'd like to point out that:

- People may want to keep their homework secret (I know places where, if two students present the same code to a teacher, they both get into serious trouble -- regardless of who's guilty)

- A PhD thesis is also a good candidate for encrypted version control (both programs and text documents)

- Configurations inside a company (I am not supposed to say more about this, but security-related configuration can be stored in concurrent version control systems)

- Distributed version control systems can also work as easy incremental backup (of anything, not just programs!)

So, taht's it. I think the users should have access to technology like Apso, since it doesn't actually take away nobody's freedom.

Thank you very much.


Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini>

 

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