Editing GNU Savannah (section)

==History==
Loïc Dachary installed SourceForge on a server located in Boston for the benefit of the [[GNU Project]] (specifically, to power the GNU Savannah's website). When, as contributor to SourceForge, he found out it was to be turned into proprietary software, he forked it and named it Savannah (since it was the software running the GNU Project's Savannah website and had no other name). People contributing to GNU Savannah were called savannah-hackers from this day, as it was at first more a quick hack than anything else.

[[CERN]] took interest in the source code and hired Mathieu Roy, a savannah-hacker, to work in Geneva. It led to the development of Savane (software) starting in 2003.

In 2003, [[Vincent Caron]], friend to Loïc Dachary, found out the security of the server located was compromised.  A new server was bought by the [[Free Software Foundation]] to provide a clean reinstall of the software. When this server was put in place, after a four-month outage without any public news, only Free Software Foundation employees had access to it. Notably savannah-hackers had no access<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2003-12/msg00272.html
| title=about savannah reinstallation management
| first=Mathieu
| last=Roy
| date=2003-12-11
| website=lists.gnu.org
| access-date=2017-07-11}}</ref> and found out that [[Richard M. Stallman]] decided to move GNU Savannah to [[GForge]] because it was "seriously maintained".<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2004-04/msg00182.html
| title=Re: [Savane-dev] [IMPORTANT] GNU Savannah migration from Savannah (the Software) to GForge – Why?!
| first=Richard
| last=Stallman
| date=2004-04-10
| website=lists.gnu.org
| access-date=2017-07-11}}</ref> In response, Vincent Caron, Loïc Dachary and Mathieu Roy put up an alternative instance of the software called [[Gna!]], with a specific constitution inspired by the [[Debian Social Contract]] designed to prevent any unexpected take over.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://about.gna.org/
 |title       = the Gna! Project
 |website     = about.gna.org
 |access-date  = 2016-07-18
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120314181627/http://about.gna.org/
 |archive-date = 2012-03-14
}}</ref>

GNU Savannah was totally or partly offline for months and, ultimately, did not move to GForge, which itself turned into proprietary software.