It includes issue tracking (bugs, tasks, support, news, and documentation), project member management by roles and individual account maintenance.

However, after Savannah was set up, SourceForge was changed into proprietary software by its authors.

Professor of Physics at the University of Porto Jaime E. Villate installed an instance of this software at CERN for the interest of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

From this point, CERN regularly hired GNU project contributor Mathieu Roy to work under the guidance of CERN developer Yves Perrin to improve the software so it would fit the needs to use it to coordinate software developments related to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

Sylvain Beucler took the project over to ultimately decide, in 2013, to work on FusionForge, another fork of SourceForge, instead.