Everything about Gnu Savannah totally explained
GNU Savannah is a project of the
Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative
software development management system for
Free Software projects. Savannah currently offers
CVS,
GNU arch, mailing list, web hosting, file hosting, and bug tracking services. Savannah runs Savane, which is based on the same software as that used to run the popular
SourceForge portal.
Savannah's website is split into two domain names:
savannah.gnu.org for software that's officially part of the
GNU Project, and
savannah.nongnu.org for all other software.
Unlike
SourceForge, Savannah's focus is for hosting
free software projects and has very strict hosting policies, including a ban against the use of non-free formats (such as
Macromedia Flash) to ensure that only free software is hosted. When registering a project, project submitters have to state which
free software license the project uses.
In
2004, after a security compromise and resignations among the Savannah "hackers" (for example volunteers) team, FSF announced that it was going to move GNU Savannah from the Savannah (now
Savane) software to
GForge due to a mistaken perception that the codebase was now unmaintained. The Savannah hackers protested and there's no plan to migrate anymore.
The domain
gnu.org attracted at least 9.6 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a
Compete.com survey.
Savane
Savane is a
free web-based software hosting system, best known as the hosting software for the GNU Project's Savannah websites.
The GNU Project's Savannah website started out using
SourceForge as its hosting software. However, after Savannah was set up, SourceForge was changed into
proprietary software by its authors. The site's administrators at the
Free Software Foundation forked the software in order to maintain it.
This software fork was originally called simply
Savannah, since it was the software running the GNU Project's Savannah website and had no other name. It was later renamed
Savane, the
French word for "savannah", to distinguish the software itself from the websites, such as the GNU Project's Savannah, that use the software.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Gnu Savannah'.
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