Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] wiki page 'Why Choose Savannah' - mention recent events?

[Assaf Gordon]

On Jun 3, 2015, at 17:20, Karl Berry <address@hidden> 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.


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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 based on a private, unpublished fork of the Mercurial server.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