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 by VA Software to run their popular SourceForge portal. The Free Software Foundation logo The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... Revision control (also known as version control) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, implements a version control system: it keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers to collaborate. ... In computing, GNU arch is a revision control system, similar in purpose to tools such as CVS, SCCS, and Subversion. ... GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ... LNUX stock price (09-Dec-1999 through 09-Dec-2000) VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), formerly VA Linux Systems, is the provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application. ... Sourceforge. ...

Savannah's website is split into two domain names; savannah.gnu.org for software that is offically part of the GNU Project and owned by the Free Software Foundation, and savannah.nongnu.org for all other software. The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ...

Unlike SourceForge, Savannah's focus is for hosting free software projects and has very strict hosting policies, such as (their view of) correct terminology and no use of nonfree 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. Sourceforge. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it as well as games or movies created using the program. ... Generally speaking, free software license is a phrase used by the free software movement to mean any software license that meets the free software definition of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). ...

In 2004, there was a plan mentioned to move GNU Savannah from the Savane software to GForge, due to a perception that Savane was unmaintained. This was apparently abandoned, as of December 2005 Savannah is still running Savane. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ... GForge is a Free Software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. ... GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Comparison of Free Software Hosting Facilities
• GForge
• BerliOS
• Gna.org: a hosting platform compatible with Savannah's philosophy

A comparison of online hosting facilities which serves free software. ... GForge is a Free Software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. ... The BerliOS project was founded by FOKUS, a Fraunhofer society institute, to coordinate the different interest groups in the field of open source software (OSS) and to assume a neutral coordinator function. ... In the beginning, GNA stood for Gnas Not Axis. This was an association formed by Loïc Dachary for the distribution of Free Software (free as in freedom). ...

External links

• Savane: new version of the Savannah software
• Savannah home page
• "FSF Migrating From Savannah to Gforge", Slashdot, Apr. 13, 2004. Article and discussion about potential software change.