gnu savannah as an sftp target

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gnu savannah as an sftp target Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

lists.defectivebydesign.org/archive/html/savannah-announce/2 · rejected-provider · storage/gnu-savannah-as-an-sftp-target · JSON · compare

Free tier	The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client
Notes	The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	lists.defectivebydesign.org/archive/html/savannah-announce/2	The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client
2026-10-21	savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DownloadArea/	cited as the basis of the rejection: The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with `-O` (legacy protocol) on OpenSSH >= 9.0. A modern client",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

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$.confidence_note withheld
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$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
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$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded