SourceForge.net
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SourceForge.net is a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development, and acts as a source code repository. SourceForge.net is hosted by VA Software and runs a version of the SourceForge software. A large number of open source projects are hosted on the site (it had reached 139,750 projects and 1,491,454 registered users as of January 2007), although it does contain many dormant or single-user projects.
SourceForge.net has offered free hosting and tools access to developers of free and open source software for several years, and has become well-known within such development communities as such.
SourceForge.net competes with other providers such as RubyForge, Tigris.org, BountySource, BerliOS and GNU Savannah.
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SourceForge.net allows any project uniquely named in its registry to be sub-domained as http://project-name.sourceforge.net or http://project-name.sf.net. This gives some prominent URL branding to a project and a high activity in it can get the project listed on the main page http://sourceforge.net as a Top Project. Having a high number of registered members numbering over a million, and often been researched for project information, any participating project can gain fast access to the market of developers and users for a short and efficient adoption rate.
SourceForge.net provides ample diskspace for a project to completely house their contents such as wiki, mysql database, source code versions, and even their own website pages at the subdomain location.
[edit] Temporary ban in mainland China
The entire SourceForge.net website was banned in mainland China around 2002. The ban of the projects' host was released in 2003, but the vhost.sourceforge.net was still banned until late 2004 or early 2005.[citation needed]
