Savannah's website is split into two domain names: savannah.gnu.org for software that is 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" (i.e. 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.
See also
- Comparison of Free Software Hosting Facilities
- BerliOS – another software development hosting site
- GForge – another fork of SourceForge
- Gna.org – a software development hosting site: home site of Savane
- SourceForge – software used by GNU Savannah before fork
- SourceForge.net – another software development hosting site
- Tigris.org – a software development hosting site for software hosting software itself
References
External links
- http://savannah.gnu.org/ and http://savannah.nongnu.org/ – Savannah main sites
- Savane – software home site
- "FSF Migrating From Savannah to Gforge". Slashdot, . Article and discussion about potential software change which didn't happen
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