GNU Savannah

ROAM_REFS: https://savannah.gnu.org/

Welcome to Savannah, the software forge for people committed to free software:

• We host free projects that run on free operating systems and without any proprietary software dependencies. Hosting requirements
• Our service runs with 100% free software, including itself.
• Why choose Savannah?

Savannah aims to be a central point for development, maintenance and distribution of official GNU software. In addition, for projects that support free software but are not part of GNU, we provide savannah.nongnu.org.

If you would like to use Savannah to host your project, then go to the Register New Project menu entry.

We strongly recommend all Savannah users subscribe to this mailing list:

• savannah-announce: low-volume notifications of important issues and changes at Savannah.

And this mailing list is a place for Savannah users to communicate and ask questions:

• savannah-users: help with using Savannah in general (not with a specific project).

Happy hacking!

ROAM_REFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah

GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation initiated by Loïc Dachary, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for free software projects. Savannah currently offers CVS, GNU arch, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, mailing list, web hosting, file hosting, and bug tracking services. Savannah initially ran on the same SourceForge software that at the time was used to run the SourceForge portal.

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 or GitHub, 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 Adobe 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.

Project owners do not have the freedom of deleting their submitted projects on their own wish and the staff has a policy of refusing all deletion requests, unless the project was approved by mistake or has always been empty.