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task #15295: confusing savane savannah

Submitter:  Peter Liscovius <peterdd>
Submitted:  Wed 05 Jun 2019 06:48:14 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Thu 06 Jun 2019 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Thu 06 Jun 2019 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Misdirected Items Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  ineiev Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 06 Jun 2019 08:06:32 AM UTC, comment #4: 


> It is quite confusing on many levels for an outsider.


Agreed.

>To my current understanding Savannah's software is called Savane, but when I search savane in projects I only get 2 outdated failed rewrite attempts.


The "Powered by Savane 3.4" footer directs to https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/administration which provides the right command to clone,

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/administration/savane.git

BTW, the support tracker fits better for such kind of requests. Tasks are mostly for approving new packages.

Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Thu 06 Jun 2019 07:57:40 AM UTC, comment #3: 


> GNU Savannah
> Sav! (what is this???)


I've added deprecating notes to these descriptions.

Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Thu 06 Jun 2019 07:04:59 AM UTC, comment #2: 


>  the link to the box does not exist.


I've removed most text from SavaneInABox and references to it from other pages.

Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Thu 06 Jun 2019 06:51:08 AM UTC, comment #1: 


> I also detected some security issues with current savane. Where to report?


-email is unavailable-

Ineiev <ineiev>
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Wed 05 Jun 2019 06:48:14 PM UTC, original submission:  

It is quite confusing on many levels for an outsider.

To my current understanding Savannah's software is called Savane, but when I search savane in projects I only get 2 outdated failed rewrite attempts.

So it seems the project main page of Savane is https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/administration/

But then there are not only 3 versioning systems in use there: git, subversion, cvs - they are also not in sync or lead to the real up to date source:

In the 'Development Tools' section:

The first 'Git Repository' - 'Browse Source Repository'
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/administration.git
last edit was 2012!

Only when you click on 'Git Repository' leads to a page
https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=administration
where is stated that there are 4 different git repositories for the same software:

GNU Savannah
Sav!  (what is this???)
Savannah's Savane (whats the difference to GNU Savannah?)
Savannah external test suite (ok..)
So I have to clone all to see on which people really work?


Why not add some notes beside the source links in that they are outdated? Or a comment beside the links in the Development Tools section?

Ok, finally I seemed to found the right and cloned it, but then:
file ChangeLog last entry is 2007-10-05. WTF?
Ok, I look into NEWS and there is: 2019-01-09 3.4 (ok, wipe sweat from forehead :-)

Then there are
grep -rin gna.org | wc -l
253

references to a mysterious domain gna.org that does not exist (anymore).



Then I tried http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavaneInABox/
, but the link to the box does not exist.

I had good experience using vagrant for local testing. Maybe provide a Vagrantfile for easy tryout Savane?
- A vagrant base box
- some apt-get (as you prefer deb/ubuntulike distris)
- pull/clone savane
- some setup shell commands
- (re)start mysql + apache services
- done

I also detected some security issues with current savane. Where to report?

Peter Liscovius <peterdd>

 

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