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A comparison of facilities that host open source development services.
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General software
| Name | Code hosting | Code review | Bug tracking | Web hosting | Wiki | Translation system | Shell server | Mailing List | News Group (NNTP) | Forum | Personal branch | Private branch | Announce | Build system | Team | Others |
| Alioth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP | |||||||||
| Bitbucket | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Codendi | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |||||
| CVSDude | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Extensive Help |
| Fedora Hosted | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| GitHub | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |||||
| Google Code | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Launchpad | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Blueprints, Karma, Answer, Mail interface, public API, OpenID Provider |
| SourceForge | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Marketplace, Jobs, Help Wanted, OpenID Relying Party |
| OSPDev | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP |
| openSUSE Build Service | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | public API |
| Name | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Bazaar | Microsoft TFS | Arch | Git | Mercurial | Bounties | Runs on all free software | Online Support | notes |
| Alioth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Preference for Debian related projects. |
| Assembla | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 200 MB Free. Ticket Tool. Wiki. Scrum Reports. Trac. |
| BerliOS | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | Funded by the German government. |
| Betavine | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Funded by the Vodafone Group. |
| Bitbucket | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Free 150MB plan; basic issue-tracking; visualizations; wiki |
| BountySource | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Allows monetary bounties on tasks. Custom CMS and SVN browser. |
| Codendi | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Provided by Xerox-API Web services-Salomé TMF- Corrective and scalable maintenance[2] |
| CodePlex | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Microsoft's open source project hosting site. |
| CVSDude | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | CVSDude's open source and commercial project hosting & management site. |
| Dotsrc.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Open source projects not fitted for SourceForge, Savannah, BerliOS, etc.. |
| Fedorahosted.org | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Provides project hosting, bug tracking system, Wiki, and electronic mailing list services for upstream projects that support Fedora |
| FireForge | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Provides open source projects hosting and services, for Russian-based and international projects. |
| Freepository | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts have web access only. |
| Gitorious | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes [3] | ? | Free open source project hosting. |
| GitHub | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Git Hosting. Free for open source, paid for private. |
| GNU Savannah | Yes | Yes | Yes | Beta[1] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Project by the Free Software Foundation. |
| Google Code | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[2] | New service from Google as of 2006-07-27. |
| Launchpad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Provided by Canonical. CVS and Svn are imported to Bazaar format. |
| Novell Forge | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | |
| Origo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Funded by ETH Zurich, established 2007, hosts also closed source, has API. |
| OSOR.eu | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Launched by The European Commission. Collaboration with national/local forges. |
| OSPDev | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Funded by LFEO.ir, established April 2007, Support All OpenSource projects. |
| OW2 Consortium | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Merger of ObjectWeb and Orientware; oriented on middleware technology. |
| repo.or.cz | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes [4] | ? | Public Git hosting site. |
| Sarovar | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes[3] | No | No | ? | ? | Indian free software hosting service. |
| ShareSource.org | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[4] | Free project hosting - aims on being Web 2.0 |
| SharpForge.org | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Provides hosting of SharpForge |
| Simple End-User Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Established May 1997. |
| SourceForge | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No[5] | ? | |
| SourceFubar.Net | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Open source projects. Free of charge. CVS, bug tracking system, electronic mailing list and IRC. |
| Tigris.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Restricted to collaborative software development tools. |
| TuxFamily | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Name | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Bazaar | Microsoft TFS | Arch | Git | Mercurial | Bounties | Runs on all free software | Online Support | notes |
Notes
- ^ Savannah Support Request: Bazaar on Savannah
- ^ Developers of Google Code's project hosting service are responsive in the discussion group and in the issue tracker.
- ^ Sarovar supports git indirectly, by providing an rsync service, which is one of the git transports.
- ^ ShareSource support officers are regularly on IRC at #sharesource and also in their Support Wiki.
- ^ SourceForge was previously free software before October 2001: [1]
Specific requirements
| Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Arch | git | notes |
| CakeForge | http://cakeforge.org/ | No | No | Yes | No | Only for CakePHP related projects. | |
| Drupal | http://drupal.org/project/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Drupal related projects. | |
| freedesktop.org | http://freedesktop.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | X.Org, cairo (graphics), and other Linux desktop infrastructure projects. |
| GBorg | http://gborg.postgresql.org/ | No | Yes | No | No | Only for PostgreSQL related projects. | |
| Gna! | https://gna.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for FSF-recognized free software projects. |
| mambo-code.org | http://mambo-code.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only for Mambo (software) related free software projects. Previously known as Mambo Forge. | ||
| Mac OS Forge | http://www.macosforge.org/ | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Only for Mac OS X related projects. |
| OSPDev | http://www.ospdev.net/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for OpenSource projects. | |
| JavaForge | http://javaforge.com/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for Java related projects. Plugins available for Eclipse and NetBeans | |
| JoomlaCode | http://joomlacode.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only for Joomla! related development. Previously known as JoomlaForge | ||
| LuaForge | http://luaforge.net/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Lua related projects | |
| mozdev | http://www.mozdev.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Mozilla related projects. | |
| OCaml Forge | http://forge.ocamlcore.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for OCaml related projects |
| Openmoko | http://projects.openmoko.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for Openmoko related projects |
| pgfoundry | http://www.pgfoundry.org/ | No | Yes | Yes | No | Only for PostgreSQL related projects | |
| RubyForge | http://rubyforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Only for Ruby related projects |
| SqueakSource | http://www.squeaksource.com/ | Yes | No | No | No | Only for Squeak related projects | |
| SugarForge | http://sugarforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | No | No | Only for SugarCRM related projects | |
| SEUL.org | http://www.seul.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for projects licensed under a DFSG-compatible license. | |
| AdmiSource | http://admisource.gouv.fr/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for projects endorsed by a French administration, and under free software licence. | |
| Common-Lisp.Net | http://common-lisp.net/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Only for projects written in or related to Common Lisp. Darcs available, too. | |
| TYPO3 Forge | http://forge.typo3.org/ | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Only for TYPO3 related projects. |
