To apply for project registration, you should fill in basic information about it. Please read descriptions below carefully and provide complete and comprehensive data. All fields below are mandatory.

1. Project full name

You should start with specifying the name of your project. The "Full Name" is descriptive, and has no arbitrary restrictions (except a 40 character limit).

Full Name:

2. Project Purpose And Summarization

Please provide detailed, accurate description of your project and what CougaarForge resources and in which way you plan to use. This description will be the basis for the approval or rejection of your project's hosting on CougaarForge, and later, to ensure that you are using the services in the intended way. This description will not be used as a public description of your project. It must be written in English.

3. License

If you selected "other", please provide an explanation along with a description of your license. Realize that other licenses may not be approved. Also, it may take additional time to make a decision for such project, since we will need to check that license is compatible with the OpenSource definition.

4. Project Public Description

This is the description of your project which will be shown on the Project Summary page, in search results, etc. It should not be as comprehensive and formal as Project Purpose description (step 2), so feel free to use concise and catchy wording. Maximum length is 255 chars.

5. Project Unix Name

In addition to full project name, you will need to choose short,"Unix" name for your project.

The "Unix Name" has several restrictions because it is used in so many places around the site. They are:

  • Cannot match the unix name of any other project
  • Must be between 3 and 15 characters in length
  • Must be in lower case
  • Can only contain characters, numbers, and dashes
  • Must be a valid unix username
  • Cannot match one of our reserved domains
  • Unix name will never change for this project

Your unix name is important, however, because it will be used for many things, including:

  • A web site at unixname.cougaar.org
  • A CVS Repository root of /cvsroot/unixname at cvs.unixname.cougaar.org
  • Shell access to unixname.cougaar.org
  • Search engines throughout the site

Unix Name:

6. SCM

You can choose among different SCM for your project, but just one. Please select the SCM system you want to use.

You will not be able to change it once the project is registered!

As there exist just one SCM, then this will be selected automatically. scmcvs will be selected.