Follow-up Comment #3, support #422 (project savane):
We are surely not against having more users, having a more precise list of
feature. And I'm quite sure the current presentation does not speak in favor
of Savane as much it could. But no one had time and desire to devote time on
this. It would surely be good if it was different but, as you can see, it is
not.
Savane development is mostly done: by someone using Savane because he needs it
to be improved for his own needs ; by someone paid by someone else using
Savane because this last person needs it to be improved for his own needs.
Savane does not exists because at some point a developer thought it could be
an interesting business plan to work on that, but because people maintaining
an installation of SourceForge for GNU (at savannah.gnu.org) needed it be
improved and it was not possible to rely on SourceForge people for their
bugdet (volunteers) and ethics (SF stopped being libre software). There was no
release of Savane until 2003 and it happened only because there was different
persons interesting in using the modified version SourceForge we had, and
downloading the CVS was not an acceptable long term solution.
So Savane was released.
But no one created a "foundation" or a company to support the software, no one
really start to commercialize it, even if some persons were hired by third
parties to work on it.
As result, what Savane is nowaday is a software that work in real life but
they're nothing proving it and presenting it apart from the running
installations. It surely could be improved, but I guess it lacks someone
interesting in making a business around it. I think it is possible, but I
personally have no time for that.
So maybe someday someone, maybe me, will have the good idea to sum up the good
features contained into Savane. Someone should definitely do that. But it is
quite hard to provide a realistic deadline for that.
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