Comparison of open source software hosting facilities

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A comparison of facilities that host open source development services.

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[edit] General software

Name Website Ad-free CVS SVN Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Bounties Runs on all free software Online Support notes
Assembla http://www.assembla.com/ No No Yes No No No Yes Yes No ? ? 500 MB Free. Ticket Tool. Wiki. Scrum Reports. Trac.
BerliOS http://www.berlios.de/ No Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Funded by the German government.
Betavine http://forge.vodafonebetavine.net/ No Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Funded by the Vodafone Group.
BountySource https://www.bountysource.com/ No No Yes No No No No No Yes ? ? Allows monetary bounties on tasks. Custom CMS and SVN browser.
CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/ No No No No Yes No No No No No ? Microsoft's open source project hosting site.
CVSDude http://cvsdude.com/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No Yes CVSDude's open source and commercial project hosting & management site.
Dotsrc.org http://dotsrc.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Open source projects not fitted for SourceForge, Savannah, BerliOS, etc..
FireForge http://fireforge.net/ 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 http://freepository.com/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts have web access only.
Gitorious http://gitorious.org/ Yes No No No No No Yes No No Yes [1] ? Free open source project hosting.
github http://github.com/ Yes No No No No No Yes No No ? ? 100 MB free. git repository hosting.
GNU Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Project by the Free Software Foundation.
Google Code http://code.google.com/hosting/ Yes No Yes No No No No No No No Yes[1] New service from Google as of 2006-07-27.
Launchpad https://launchpad.net Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? Provided by Canonical. CVS and Svn are imported to Bazaar format.
Novell Forge http://forge.novell.com/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ?
Origo http://origo.ethz.ch/ Yes No Yes No No No No No No Yes ? Funded by ETH Zurich, established 2007, hosts also closed source, has API.
OSP http://www.osp.ir/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes Funded by LFEO.ir, established April 2007, Support All OpenSource projects.
OW2 Consortium http://www.ow2.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Merger of ObjectWeb and Orientware; oriented on middleware technology.
repo.or.cz http://repo.or.cz/ Yes No No No No No Yes No No ? ? Public Git hosting site.
Sarovar http://sarovar.org/ Yes Yes No No No No Yes[2] No No ? ? Indian free software hosting service.
ShareSource.org http://sharesource.org/ Yes No Yes No No No No Yes No Yes ? Free project hosting - aims on being Web 2.0
SharpForge.org http://sharpforge.org/ Yes No Yes No No No No No No No ? Provides hosting of SharpForge
Simple End-User Linux http://www.seul.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Established May 1997.
SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ No Yes Yes No No No No No No No ?
SourceFubar.Net http://www.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 http://www.tigris.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Restricted to collaborative software development tools.
TuxFamily http://www.tuxfamily.org/ Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Google Code Hosting developers are responsive in the discussion group and in the issue tracker.
  2. ^ Sarovar supports git indirectly, by providing an rsync service, which is one of the git transports.

[edit] Specific requirements or preferences

Name Website Ad-free CVS SVN Arch git notes
Alioth http://alioth.debian.org/ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Preference for Debian related projects.
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.
OSP http://www.osp.ir/ 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.

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