Comparison of open-source software hosting facilities

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A source code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility where large amounts of source code are kept, either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source projects and other multi-developer projects to handle various versions. They help developers submit patches of code in an organized fashion. Often these web sites support version control, bug tracking, release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based documentation.

People who write software retain their copyright when their software is posted to any open-source software hosting facilities, including the "non-gnu" section of GNU Savannah -- with the exception of contributors to FSF-copyrighted programs at GNU Savannah.[1][2][3]

Overview

General information

Name Manager Established Notes Countries blocked Runs on all free software Ad-free
Alioth Debian Project 2003 Preference for Debian related projects Yes Yes
Assembla Assembla, Inc 2005 Free private project plan subscriptions for 3 user, 500 MB of storage, 1 projects and 1 repository. Free public projects with 2 GB of storage. Commercial projects with customizable sets of tools and features. No Yes
BerliOS FOKUS[4] 2000 Yes No
Betavine Vodafone 2007 No No
Bitbucket Atlassian 2008 Free private repositories are limited to 5 users No Yes
CloudForge Collabnet 2000 Unlimited Free private repositories and unlimited users 2GB free No Yes
CodePlex Microsoft 2006 (May) No Yes
Fedora Hosted Fedora Project Yes Yes
Freepository 1999 Free accounts have web access only. Yes Yes
GitHub GitHub, Inc 2008 (April) Free for open source, paid for private. No Yes
GitLab GitLab.com 2011 (September)[5] No cost for up to 10,000 projects; enterprise support for $149/month[6] Yes Yes
Gitorious Powow AS[7] 2008 (January) Free for open-source projects. Yes Yes
Gna! The Gna! people 2004 (January) Only for projects with a GPL compatible license Yes Yes
GNU Savannah Savannah Administration 2001 (January) Project by the Free Software Foundation. Yes Yes
Google Code Google 2006 (July) Free. For open-source projects only. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[8] No Yes
JavaForge Intland Software 2005 Free. For open-source projects only. No Yes
Launchpad Canonical Ltd. 2004 Supports only Bazaar for version-controlled repository hosting. Yes Yes
Ourproject.org For free software, free culture and free knowledge projects. Yes Yes
OW2 Consortium OW2 Consortium oriented on middleware technology. ? Yes
SEUL.org 1997 (May) ? Yes
SourceForge Dice Holdings 1999 (November) Free. For open-source projects only.[9] Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[10] Yes[11][12] No
Tigris.org (community) 2000 Restricted to collaborative software development tools. ? No

Features

Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Release Binaries
Alioth NoYesYes No NoYesYes YesYesYesYes No No ?
Assembla Yes[13]YesYesYesYes No No NoYes Yes[14] YesYesYes?
BerliOS ?YesYes Yes[n 1] ?YesYes Yes??Yes[15]???
Bitbucket Yes[16] Yes Yes[17] Yes No No No NoYes Yes[n 2] No NoYesYes
CloudForge ? Yes Yes Yes No No No No? ? ????
CodePlex NoYes NoYes No NoYes Yes No No No No NoYes
Fedora Hosted YesYes NoYes No No No No No No No No No?
GitHub Yes[18] Yes[19] YesYes No No No NoYesYes[n 3]Yes 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI)YesYes
Gitorious Yes No NoYes No No No NoYes No No NoYes?
Gna! ? Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes No ? No ? No ??
GNU Savannah Yes[20]YesYes No NoYesYes No[21] No NoYes NoYes?
Google Code YesYes Yes[n 4] Yes No No Yes[n 4] No Yes[n 5] No No No No Yes[n 6]
JavaForge Yes[22]YesYesYes No No No Yes No NoYesYesYes?
java.net/Project Kenai ?YesYesYes No NoYes YesYesYesYesYesYes?
Launchpad YesYes No NoYes NoYes NoYes Yes[n 7] Yes Yes[n 8] Yes?
Ourproject.org ?YesYesYes No?YesYes??????
SourceForge NoYesYesYes NoYesYes YesYes NoYes NoYesYes
tigris.org NoYesYesYes No NoYes YesYesYesYes No?Yes
Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Release Binaries

Other features

  • Alioth: Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
  • Assembla: Ticket backlog planning, Ticket flow control (Cardwall), Ticket tags that allow a better tasks organization,[23] FTP, Time Tracking, StandUp Reporting, File Sharing, Google Docs Integration, API,[24] Scripts Execution through SSH (i.e. automated deploys on commits), Viewing source code as webpage, Highly-customizable Webhooks, Custom Tabs that allow to view external websites inside the project,[25] Space Manager (tool for master/child relations between projects),[26] Merge Requests,[27] Protected Branches [28]
  • BerliOS: FTP, MySQL
  • Bitbucket: OpenID, visualizations
  • Codeplex: Windows Live ID
  • GitHub: Public API,[29] static web-page hosting,[30] pastebin service Gist,[31] 3D model support[32]
  • Gitorious: OpenID[n 9]
  • JavaForge: Public remote API, Document management
  • Launchpad: Blueprints, Karma, Answer, Mail interface, public API, OpenID Provider, Non-project branch
  • openSUSE Build Service: public API
  • SourceForge: Help Wanted, OpenID Relying Party
  • tigris.org: public API, extensive help

Available version control systems

Name CVS SVN GNU Bazaar TFS Arch Git Mercurial Perforce
Alioth YesYesYes NoYes YesYes?
Assembla NoYes No No NoYes NoYes
BerliOS YesYes No No No Yes[33] Yes[34]?
Betavine YesYes No No No No No?
Bitbucket No No No No No YesYes?
CodePlex NoYes NoYes No YesYes?
Fedora Hosted NoYesYes No NoYesYes?
Freepository NoYes No No No No No?
GitHub NoYes[35] No No No Yes No?
Gitorious No No No No No Yes No?
Gna! YesYes No NoYes No No?
GNU Savannah YesYes Yes[36] NoYesYesYes No
Google Code NoYes No No NoYesYes?
java.net No Yes[37] No No No Yes[37] Yes[37] ?
JavaForge YesYes No No No YesYes?
Launchpad Import only Import only Yes No No Import only[38] Import only[39]?
Ourproject.org YesYes No No No No No?
OW2 Consortium YesYes No No No No No?
SEUL.org YesYes No No No No No?
SourceForge YesYesYes No NoYesYes?
Tigris.org YesYes No No No No No?
Name CVS SVN GNU Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Perforce

Popularity

Name Users Projects Prominent projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Alioth 13,525[40] 988[40] SANE N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla 800,000+[41] 60,000+[42] GXUnit, Hikarunix, HippoMocks, MadSwatter, SnakeYAML, Scala IDE 8,832[43]
BerliOS 52,811[44] 4,863[44] aMule, avidemux, SuperTux, LinCity-NG 32,079[45]
Bitbucket 1,000,000[46] 93,661[47] OGRE, TortoiseHg, Codeigniter, Pylons, Sphinx 5,210[48]
CodePlex 151,782 36,472[49] ASP.NET MVC Framework, Entity Framework, IronPython, Cosmos 2,097[50]
Fedora Hosted ? 411[51]
GitHub 5,100,000[52] 10,700,000[52] Ruby on Rails, IronRuby, jQuery, Moodle, Diaspora, node.js, NumPy, Spring Framework, PHP, Play Framework, Scala, SciPy 261[53]
Gitorious ?[n 10] 33,750[54] Qt, MeeGo 41,397[55]
Gna! 17,065 1,390 98,892
GNU Savannah 57,591[56] 3,487[56] Most GNU projects (including Emacs), QEMU 58,704[57] (approximation)
Google Code ?[n 10] 250,000+[58] Inferno, Android, Chromium N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Launchpad 2,145,028[59] 32,699[60] Ubuntu, MySQL (code hosting), BlueBream (Zope 3) (bug tracking), Inkscape, Bazaar, GNOME Do, Drizzle, Launchpad, LiVES (translations) 8,320[61]
SourceForge 3,400,000+[62] 324,000[62] Inkscape (download hosting), LAME, MinGW, Poedit, 7-Zip, Fluxbox, Audacity, ffdshow, EMule, FileZilla, phpMyAdmin, LiVES 189[63]
Tigris.org ?[n 10] 684 Subversion,[n 11] TortoiseSVN, RapidSVN 26,077[64]
Name Users Projects Prominent projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)

Note 1: GitHub Blog: Those are some big numbers. The number of non-forks and forks were taken from searches done in a logged out session, so only public repositories are included. The last public gist number is a good estimate of total gists, since all gists, public or private, are numbered sequentially.

Specialized hosting facilities

The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly-focused community or technology.

Name Ad-free CVS SVN Arch Git notes
Drupal Yes No No No Yes Only for Drupal related projects.
freedesktop.org Yes No No No Yes Only for interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, including the X Window System (X11) and cairo (graphics).
mozdev Yes Yes No No Only for Mozilla related projects.
RubyForge Yes Yes Yes No Yes Only for Ruby related projects
Name Ad-free CVS SVN Arch Git notes

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ One common wiki for all projects
  2. ↑ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
  3. ↑ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 outside
  5. ↑ git and mercurial only
  6. ↑ deprecated, see A Change to Google Code Download Service
  7. ↑ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
  8. ↑ Ubuntu
  9. ↑ site is open source, see Gitorious' code on Gitorious
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Data not available.
  11. ↑ Bug tracking only, as a legacy service after the Subversion project migrated to the Apache Software Foundation.

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Sourceforge. "terms of use". says "PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS, ... IN ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT."
  3. ↑ Github. "Github terms of service". says "We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service."
  4. ↑ BerliOS – The Open Source Mediator
  5. ↑ "About". GitLab.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013. 
  6. ↑ "Enterprise Support Subscription". GitLab.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013. 
  7. ↑ Mathiesen, Marius. "Powow AS acquires Gitorious AS « The Gitorious Blog". Retrieved 3 September 2013. 
  8. ↑ Google Project Hosting – Google Code. Code.google.com (20 July 2006). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
  9. ↑ "About (SourceForge)". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25. 
  10. ↑ Terms_of_Use – sitelegal. Sourceforge.net (19 October 2009). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
  11. ↑ "About Allura". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25. 
  12. ↑ "The Next SourceForge". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25. 
  13. ↑ Assembla Merge Requests
  14. ↑ Pricing/Plans — assembla.com
  15. ↑ BerliOS Developer: Welcome. Developer.berlios.de. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
  16. ↑ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
  17. ↑ Publishing a Website on Bitbucket - Bitbucket - Atlassian Documentation. Confluence.atlassian.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
  18. ↑ GitHub Pull Requests
  19. ↑ GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
  20. ↑ From Savannah's Maintenance Docs, How To Get Your Project Approved Quickly: "The review we do can be lengthy and difficult for both the submitter and the reviewer. Be sure to follow these steps; if your project doesn't comply with our requirements, we will ask you to make changes to your project or register again. This ensures a level of quality for projects hosted at Savannah, and even more important, raises awareness of these legal and philosophical issues related to free software."
  21. ↑ From Savannah's documentation, this feature is deprecated. See
  22. ↑ Integrator Workflow: Pull Requests – codeBeamer Knowledge Base
  23. ↑ Ticket Tags explanation
  24. ↑ Assembla API documentation
  25. ↑ How to Focus your Team with Custom Tabs
  26. ↑ Space Manager announcement
  27. ↑ Advanced Merge Requests for Git
  28. ↑ Introducing Protected Branches
  29. ↑ GitHub API docs
  30. ↑ GitHub pages
  31. ↑ Gist is a pastebin service operated by GitHub
  32. ↑ STL File Viewing
  33. ↑ News, BerliOS Project (5 July 2008), BerliOS provides GIT Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  34. ↑ News, BerliOS Project (5 July 2008), BerliOS provides Mercurial (HG) Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  35. ↑ https://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support
  36. ↑ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (24 October 2008), GNU Bazaar on Savannah, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 "java.net Managing a Project: Source Code Repository". 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013. 
  38. ↑ Launchpad supports Git imports.
  39. ↑ Accessing Git, Subversion and Mercurial from Bazaar.
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Alioth: Welcome
  41. ↑ Assembla: Home
  42. ↑ "Assembla integrates with Basecamp and offers workspaces and portfolios for distributed agile development teams". 37signals. 6 March 2009. 
  43. ↑ Assembla.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 BerliOS Developer Portal
  45. ↑ Berlios.de Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.
  46. ↑ Altlassian Bitbucket passes one million users - Bitbucket Blog
  47. ↑ Repository List
  48. ↑ Bitbucket.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  49. ↑ CodePlex – CodePlex – Project Directory
  50. ↑ Codeplex.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  51. ↑ Fedora Hosted project list. Retrieved on 2013-05-22.
  52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 GitHub Press Page. Retrieved on Jan 2014.
  53. ↑ Github.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  54. ↑ Projects. Gitorious.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-29.
  55. ↑ Gitorious.org Site Info. Alexa.com Retrieved on 2013-10-29.
  56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 Statistics – Savannah. gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  57. ↑ Nongnu.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.
  58. ↑ Rosenberg, Jonathan (21 December 2009). "The meaning of open". Official Google blog.
  59. ↑ People and teams in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
  60. ↑ Projects registered in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02
  61. ↑ Launchpad.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  62. ↑ 62.0 62.1 "What is SourceForge.net?" sourceforge.net.
  63. ↑ Sourceforge.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  64. ↑ Tigris.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.

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