Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a free software project makes…well…no sense. So then I started looking at the alternatives. I landed on Savannah. My first Savannah project was GoldenPod. Followed by the (mostly dead) GoldenBackup (no link due to no website nor release, it does have a CVS though). Then followed by the common configuration parser. Then I had my disagreements with Savannah (as some of you might remember).

Then I started looking at GNA! which I am now using for my most active project, Day planner. Now what does GNA! have to offer that Savannah doesn’t?
Well, it offers easier access to the downloads directory, I can simply rsync/scp stuff from my box to the GNA! download directory. It also has SVN which is imho MUCH better than CVS (I’ve never used Arch, so I won’t say anything about that). They also offer download/website statistics, something Savannah doesn’t. The only plus of Savannah I can find is some of their admins. I’ve spoken with a few of them and they where very nice, savannah also has an IRC channel (#savannah on freenode) which is rather nice. Though currently, I’ll take my GNA! without my Savannah if that is possible thank you very much.

GoldenPod also makes it easier to manage your podcasts and is portable music player friendly. It has a function that can copy N of the newest podcasts to the supplied directory. Example:
goldenpod --files 4 --copy /mnt/removable/podcasts/
will copy the 4 newest podcasts to /mnt/removable/podcasts/. As 4 is the default it is the same as
goldenpod --copy /mnt/removable/podcasts/

Along the same lines it can delete the N oldest podcasts. Example:
goldenpod --files 4 --rmold
As with –copy, 4 is the default. So the above example is the same as:
goldenpod --rmold.

Another nifty feature is that you can ignore a perl regular expression pattern when downloading, copying or deleting podcasts. This can also be set in the configuration file to ignore by default (however, the setting in the config file does not apply to –rmold, the commandline option does). Example:
goldenpod --ignore-pattern '(foo|bar|baz)'
This will download all podcasts other than those matching the regular expression (foo|bar|baz), that is, all files that does not have either foo, bar or baz in their name.

For more information about goldenpod you can download it and read the readme and manpage.
You can download it both in tar.gz and tar.bz2 from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/goldenpod/.
The latest release when I’m writing this is 0.4.

Please post supports requests at https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?group=goldenpod and not here. Easier to manage them at savannah.