This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of Free Software that runs on free operating systems.
If you would like to use these facilities to host your project, then go to the Register new project menu entry that is displayed after login.
If you would like to make your project part of the GNU project, then write to gnu@gnu.org. An attempt to register a project that is not part of the GNU project will also give you the opportunity to apply. Before doing this, you should read the GNU Code Standards to find out if your software complies with them and talk to your fellow developers about it. The GNU Software Evaluation Team page will also help you understand the philosophical and technical aspects of the GNU project.
While there are a few separate documents explaining the usage of the site, most of the documentation is included in the pages themselves (the place where you are most likely to need it).
We provide two mailing-lists that you may want to subscribe to:
- savannah-announce: low-volume notifications of important issues and changes at Savannah
- savannah-users: discussion of savannah-announce and any user-oriented topic
The software used to run Savannah is being developed by the Savane project. The Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu logo is a GNU GPL'ed image provided by the Nevrax Design Team.
posted by Beuc, Monday 12/31/2007 at 20:03 UTC - 0 replies
Happy GNU year!
posted by Beuc, Thursday 11/08/2007 at 00:47 UTC - 3 replies
When trying to install a new kernel, we got an error where initrd would apparently failed to setup RAID correctly, but unfortunately it was not possible to get the exact error message via the remote serial interface. For now we're back to the old ...
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posted by Beuc, Tuesday 09/25/2007 at 20:39 UTC - 3 replies
RMS suggested rejecting patches from non-registered users, for both GNU and non-GNU projects, because the FSF legal team recommends against accepting patches from anonymous users. While non-registered users may authenticate their patches by other means (GPG...), this is considered as a first step against anonymous patches.
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posted by Beuc, Sunday 07/01/2007 at 15:03 UTC - 5 replies
The web interface was upgraded with little user-visible changes and cleaned-up code (PHP5, register_globals=off, etc.). If you need it, the old interface is still available from http://savannah.gnu.org/old/ . If you hit a bug, please notify us ...
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posted by Beuc, Thursday 06/28/2007 at 22:06 UTC - 1 reply
If you want to upgrade to the GNU GPL v3, you can go to the new interface at http://savannah.gnu.org/new/ and edit your project Main/Public Info.
Alternatively you edit the following direct ...
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posted by Beuc, Tuesday 06/26/2007 at 22:35 UTC - 1 reply
You now can create Git repositories at Savannah! Discover how to use it at http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit .
To create a new repository, you need to use a new web interface at http://savannah.gnu.org/new/ [edit: this ...
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posted by Beuc, Monday 05/21/2007 at 19:28 UTC - 1 reply
It went smooth and caused practically no downtime, so you shouldn't have noticed, but Savannah is now running Debian Etch/4.0, CVS 1.12.13 and ViewVC 1.0.4 :)
posted by Beuc, Friday 03/16/2007 at 00:10 UTC - 6 replies
You may be in the situation where you have changes in your CVS working copy that are not committed in the restored Savannah repository anymore. strk suggested the following procedure:
- Get a fresh cvs export from the repository (call it fresh-export) ...
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posted by Beuc, Thursday 03/15/2007 at 23:45 UTC - 3 replies
Savannah is up and running again after about 2 days 1/2 downtime.
The system was completely restored using the backup from Sunday night, and a partial backup from Monday night (Boston time).
We still have concerns about the RAID hardware (3 old + 1 new SCSI
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