On Jun 3, 2015, at 17:20, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if it's worth mentioning long-term stability and > availability ? > > Sounds good to me.
I was thinking of something like this. Comments welcomed. =================================================================== --- WhyChooseSavannah.mdwn (revision 159) +++ WhyChooseSavannah.mdwn (working copy) @@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ support](http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html) based on a private, unpublished fork of the Mercurial server. +Savannah aims for long-term stability and availability - operating since +late 2000 and hosting source-code which dates back to 1985. Source code +repositories, mailing lists, websites, FTP/HTTP downloads are all kept +indefinitely with a stable URL (compared with GoogleCode closing after +9 years, Gitorious sold and closing down after 7 years, and SourceForge +problematic takeover of some projects). + Technically, Savannah provides: - A choice of VCSes (version control systems) for your source code
