GForge
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| Developer: | GForge Group |
|---|---|
| OS: | Linux Unix |
| Use: | Collaborative development environment |
| License: | GNU GPL |
| 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.
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[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 128,000 registered developers and 44 projects as of March 2007.
- 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 burst of the dot-com bubble, 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 new version of GForge dubbed GForge Advanced Server (GForge AS for short) was rewritten from scratch based on newer UML concepts. It saw first public release on June 21, 2006. Unlike the previous versions of GForge, this one is not open source although it can be used freely (with some restrictions on project limits). GForge AS is also written in PHP but encrypted with ionCube to prevent people from reading the source code. It 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.
[edit] See also
- Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)
- Computer-supported collaboration
- GNU Savannah
- List of Rapid Application Development tools
- Toolkits for User Innovation
