GForge

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GForge Open Source Edition

Developer:	GForge Group
Stable release:	gforge-4.5.11 (April 14, 2006) _[+/-]
OS:	Linux Unix
Use:	Collaborative development environment
License:	GForge EULA
Website:	gforge.org

GForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. GForge is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

1 Features
2 Installations
3 History and the split
4 GForge Advanced Server
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Features

Project hosting
Version control and CVS, Subversion
Bug-tracking
Messaging

[edit] Installations

Alioth
"Citizendium Essay" the project will start as a fork of Wikipedia
gforge.org is the self-hosting website of the project
Helix is an effort among both leading technology companies and open-source developers to extend Helix DNA™, an open multi-format digital media platform. Helix has over 120,000 registered developers and 42 projects as of Oct 2006.
LuaForge a free service to the Lua community that can be used to fully host Lua projects and as a catalog of Lua projects.
RubyForge hosts open source Ruby projects.
CakeForge a free service for the CakePHP community to host their applications developed in the CakePHP framework.
PgFoundry hosts PostgreSQL related projects.

[edit] History and the split

After the dot bomb turmoil, and failing to achieve any profitability, VA Linux (now VA Software), the company owning the SourceForge Web site, decided to close the source code. The last open release was version 2.5. Some years later, one of the developers, Tim Perdue, decided to release GForge based on the last open source version.

[edit] GForge Advanced Server

A completely recoded from scratch release of GForge based on newer UML reached the public in June 21, 2006. GForge Advance Server is also written in PHP and continues to use PostgreSQL as the database engine with optional Oracle support. Plug-ins for Eclipse IDE as well as Microsoft Visual Studio and other related tools were added to increase developer functionality. Workflow process management to handle making use of the full software life cycle from inception, bug tracking to new release enhancement citation.