Savane is a free web-based software hosting system. It includes issue tracking (bugs, tasks, support, news and documentation), project member management by roles and individual account maintenance.

History

The GNU Project's

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, ...

website started out using

SourceForge SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring ...

as its hosting software. However, after Savannah was set up, SourceForge was changed into

proprietary software Proprietary software is software that is deemed within the free and open-source software to be non-free because its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner exercises a legal monopoly afforded by modern copyright and i ...

by its authors. Loïc Dachary, main site's administrator at the

Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft (" ...

, 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. Professor of Physics at the University of Porto Jaime E. Villate installed an instance of this software at CERN for the interest of the

Worldwide LHC Computing Grid The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), formerly (until 2006) the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), is an international collaborative project that consists of a grid-based computer network infrastructure incorporating over 170 computing centers in 42 co ...

. From this point, CERN regularly hired GNU project contributor Mathieu Roy to work under the guidance of CERN developer Yves Perrin to improve the software so it would fit the needs to use it to coordinate software developments related to the

. It was first released in February 2004 under the name Savane, the French word for "

savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland- grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...

h", to distinguish the software from the two main instances GNU Savannah and CERN Savannah. The latest major public release (3.0) was made in December 2006. Since then, the project failed to recruit new developers while Mathieu Roy and Yves Perrin lost interest in its development. Sylvain Beucler took the project over to ultimately decide, in 2013, to work on

FusionForge GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GPL. Open source versions of the GForge code were released from 20 ...

, another fork of

, instead.

Installations

- provides the software development and issue tracking platform for

GNU GNU () is an extensive collection of free software (383 packages as of January 2022), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operat ...

Projects, under the umbrella of the Free Software Foundation, but also to non-GNU projects. *

Gna! Gna! was a centralized location where software developers could develop, distribute and maintain free software. The service was shut down in 2017 after 13 years in service for dozens of software projects and millions of downloads served. Since Ma ...

- provided a software development and issue tracking platform, under the umbrella of the Free Software Foundation France.
CERN Savannah
- provides the platform for issue tracking and workflow control for the software developments related to the LHC Computing Grid project, LHC being the Large Hadron Collider currently being built at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva.

References

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