On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 10:17:23PM +0200, Magdalena Szweda via Discussion of savannah-announce and any user-oriented topic wrote: > I have a question regarding tarballs when registering a new project on > GNU & NonGNU Savannah. > When trying to register a new project on Savannah & submitting the > initial tarball, 'tar.gz' is visible in parentheses next to the place > where you register the project. > Is this a hard requirement? Does the tarball have to be compressed with > gzip, or can it be compressed with something like xz or zstd instead?
No, the requirement isn't hard. The point is to provide Savannah admins with an archive they could evaluate; if they encounter a format or an URL they can't access, they'll tell.
