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<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>WhyChooseSavannah</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../local.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="page"> <div class="pageheader"> <div class="header"> <span> <span class="parentlinks"> <a href="../">Savannah documentation</a>/ </span> <span class="title"> WhyChooseSavannah </span> </span> </div> </div> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="content" role="main"> <h1>Why choose Savannah</h1> <p>Savannah has high project approval requirements and thus visitors can expect freedom-related qualities from projects hosted here (such as no proprietary dependencies). Moreover, there are no advertisements, thus you do not run the risk of getting an ad for a proprietary competitor on your project page.</p> <p>By choosing Savannah, you show that you value your freedom, as all of Savannah is running exclusively with free software. Check <a href="//fsfe.org/news/2001/article2001-10-20-01.en.html">SourceForge Drifting</a> by Savannah founder Loic Dachary, or <a href="//googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html">GCode's Mercurial support</a> based on a private, unpublished fork of the Mercurial server.</p> <p>Technically, Savannah provides:</p> <ul> <li>A choice of version control systems for your source code (alphabetical order):</li> </ul> <blockquote><ul> <li><a href="../UsingGnuArch/">GNU Arch</a></li> <li><a href="../UsingBzr/">GNU Bazaar</a></li> <li><a href="../UsingCvs/">CVS</a></li> <li><a href="../UsingGit/">Git</a></li> <li><a href="../UsingHg/">Mercurial</a></li> <li><a href="../SvN/">Subversion</a></li> </ul> </blockquote> <ul> <li>An integrated bug tracking system for bugs, support requests, tasks and patches.</li> <li>Mailing lists at lists.gnu.org and lists.nongnu.org, managed via Mailman.</li> <li><a href="../HomePage/">Webpages</a> at www.gnu.org or www.nongnu.org, managed through CVS.</li> <li>A <a href="../DownloadArea/">download area</a> and its <a href="//download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html">mirrors</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>Videos</h2> <p>Savannah was presented at the following events:</p> <ul> <li><a href="//www.gnu.org/ghm/2009/">GNU Hackers Meeting 2009 Gothenburg</a></li> <li><a href="//www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/fosdem/">FOSDEM 2010 Brussels</a> (<a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2010/lightningtalks/saturday/05-sat-savannah.xvid.avi">alternate</a>) (<a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/gnu_savannah">talk</a>)</li> <li>LSM/RMLL 2010 Bordeaux (videos in progress) (<a href="http://2010.rmll.info/GNU-Savannah-100-Libre-hosting-platform.html">talk1</a>, <a href="http://2010.rmll.info/A-new-Savane.html">talk2</a>)</li> </ul> <h2>Links</h2> <p>Other sites that use Savane and offer free software hosting:</p> <ul> <li>Puszcza: <a href="https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/">https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/</a> - also philosophically compatible, also run by other people (primarily Sergey Poznyakoff); located in Ukraine (and pronounced "push-cha")</li> </ul> <p>Software projects for hosting projects, with their source code:</p> <ul> <li>Savane: <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/administration">https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/administration</a> what we use! (PHP, Perl, AGPLv3+)</li> <li>Trac: <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a> - integrated SVN/wiki/tracker for a single project; variants for other VCS exists as non-official plugins</li> <li>Redmine: <a href="http://www.redmine.org/">http://www.redmine.org/</a> - multi-projects, integrated tracker/wiki/browser/gantt (Ruby [on Rails], GPLv2+)</li> <li>LibreSource: <a href="http://dev.libresource.org/">http://dev.libresource.org/</a> (Java/J2EE, SQL/<span class="createlink">GPLv2</span>?)</li> <li>FusionForge: <a href="http://fusionforge.org/">http://fusionforge.org/</a> - forked from the same original code base as Savane, a long time ago in 2001 (PHP, GPLv2+)</li> </ul> <p>With hosting:</p> <ul> <li>Tuxfamily: <a href="http://tuxfamily.org/">http://tuxfamily.org/</a> - Savannah-like free software hosting facility - <a href="http://www.vhffs.org/">code</a></li> <li><a href="http://repo.or.cz/">http://repo.or.cz/</a> - first public Git hosting facility, runs a modified version of gitweb as the main interface + a minimum chroot'd environment + a few crons - <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/repo.git">code</a> (Perl + shell)</li> <li>Alioth: <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/">http://alioth.debian.org/</a> - aimed at Debian projects - <a href="http://fusionforge.org/">code</a></li> <li>Launchpad: <a href="https://launchpad.net/">https://launchpad.net/</a> - centered on Bazaar and Ubuntu (Python, AGPL3, but nonfree artwork) <ul> <li><a href="http://dev.launchpad.net/Getting">code</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Allura: <a href="https://allura.apache.org/">https://allura.apache.org/</a></li> </ul> <p>(Note that we do not list projects that advertise a proprietary version.)</p> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="pagefooter" role="contentinfo"> <div id="pageinfo"> <div id="backlinks"> Links: <a href="../FrontPage/">FrontPage</a> <a href="../back-page/">back-page</a> </div> <div class="pagedate"> Last edited <span class="date">Fri Feb 3 14:23:02 2023</span>  </div> </div>  </div> </div> </body> </html>