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

[edit] Features

Name Code hosting Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List News Group (NNTP) Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Others
Alioth Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
Bitbucket Yes (max 150MB on free plan[1]) No Yes No Yes No No No No No Yes Yes (max 1 on free plan[1]) No No Yes
Codendi Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No costs money[2]
CVSDude Yes (max 2MB / 1 repository on free plan[3]) No Yes (cost)[3] No Yes (cost)[3] No No Yes (cost)[3] No No No No No No Yes (cost)[3] Extensive Help, Public API (cost)[3], Network Drive (cost)
Fedora Hosted Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No
GitHub Yes (max 300MB on free plan[4]) Yes[5] Yes[6] Yes Yes No No No No No Yes Yes (cost)[4] No No No
Gitorious Yes No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No
GNU Savannah Yes  ? Yes  ?  ?  ? Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?  ? Yes  ?  ?
Google Code Yes Yes Yes Yes (outside) Yes No No No Yes (outside) No No No No No No
GridyZone Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No No No
KForge/KnowledgeForge Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No ? No No Yes No No DAV, Service is designed to be installed by others. All code is open-source and Debian package is available.
Launchpad Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes (security only)[7] Yes Yes (Ubuntu) Yes Blueprints, Karma, Answer, Mail interface, public API, OpenID Provider, Download area, Non-project branch
SourceForge Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Marketplace, Jobs, Help Wanted, OpenID Relying Party, Download area
OSPDev Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
openSUSE Build Service No No Yes (outside) No No No No No No No No No No Yes (SUSE, Debian, RedHat, Mandriva, Ubuntu) No public API
Project Kenai Yes (max 5) No Yes (max 1) No Yes (max 1) No No Yes (max 5) No Yes (max 5) Yes Yes No No No Download area (max 1)
OpenFoundry Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No Yes No No code is open
tigris.org Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? public API, extensive help
Name Code hosting Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List News Group (NNTP) Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Others

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
  2. ^ The source code is unobtainable without paying a fee. When requested, a "Business Developer" from Codendi stated "we keep the bandwidth for supported customers". To become a trained and supported customer Codendi/Xerox charges a fee of 3,000 euro plus travel expenses.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Subversion Hosting and CVS Plans | Issue and Bug Tracking Plans
  4. ^ a b Pricing — GitHub
  5. ^ Fork Queue — GitHub
  6. ^ GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
  7. ^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates

[edit] VCS and others

Name Ad-free CVS SVN Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Bounties Runs on all free software Online Support Manager Establish notes
Alioth Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Debian Project 2003 Preference for Debian related projects.
Assembla No No Yes No No No Yes Yes No No[1] Yes Assembla, LLC 200 MB Free. Ticket Tool. Wiki. Scrum Reports. Trac.
BerliOS No Yes Yes No No No Yes[2] Yes[3] No ? ? FOKUS[4] Funded by German government
Betavine No Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Vodafone Group 2007
Bitbucket Yes No No No No No No Yes ? Yes Yes Avantlumiere Free 150MB plan; basic issue-tracking; visualizations; wiki
BountySource No No Yes No No No No No Yes ? ? Bounty Source Inc. late 2003 Allows monetary bounties on tasks. Custom CMS and SVN browser.
Codendi No Yes Yes No No No No No No No ? Xerox Corrective and scalable maintenance
CodePlex No No Yes No Yes No No No No No ? Microsoft 2006-05
CVSDude Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No Yes CVSDude Pty Ltd CVSDude's open source and commercial project hosting & management site.
Dotsrc.org Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? (volunteers) Open source projects not fitted for SourceForge, Savannah, BerliOS, etc..
Fedora Hosted Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Fedora Project Provides project hosting, bug tracking system, Wiki, and electronic mailing list services for upstream projects that support Fedora
FireForge Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes ReactOS Foundation 2008-04 Provides open source projects hosting and services, for Russian-based and international projects.
Freepository Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? 1999 Provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts have web access only.
Gitorious Yes No No No No No Yes No No Yes ? Johan Sørensen Free open source project hosting.
GitHub Yes No No No No No Yes No No No Yes Logical Awesome Git Hosting. Free for open source, paid for private.
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes Beta[5] No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Savannah Administration Project by the Free Software Foundation.
Google Code Yes No Yes No No No No No No No Yes[6] Google 2006-07-27
GridyZone No No Yes No No No No No No No Yes Gridy
KForge/KnowledgeForge Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes No [Knowledge Foundation] 2005 Preference for Open Knowledge related projects. Can easily be installed by others.
Launchpad Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes [7] Canonical Ltd. CVS and Svn are imported to Bazaar format.
Novell Forge Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? Novell
Origo Yes No Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes ETH Zürich 2007 hosts also closed source, has API.
OSOR.eu ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Launched by The European Commission. Collaboration with national/local forges.
OSPDev Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes LFEO group 2007-04 Support All OpenSource projects.
OW2 Consortium Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? OW2 Consortium Merger of ObjectWeb and Orientware; oriented on middleware technology.
Project Kenai Yes No Yes No No No No Yes No No Yes Sun Microsystems
repo.or.cz Yes No No No No No Yes No No Yes ? Petr Baudis First public Git hosting site.[8]
Sarovar Yes Yes No No No No Yes[9] No No ? ? Indian free software hosting service.
ShareSource.org Yes No Yes No No No No Yes No Yes Yes[10] Free project hosting - aims on being Web 2.0
SharpForge.org Yes No Yes No No No No No No No ? Provides hosting of SharpForge
SEUL.org Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? 1997-05
SourceForge No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No[11] ? SourceForge, Inc. (Formerly VA Software) 1999-11
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 Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? ? (community) 2000 Restricted to collaborative software development tools.
TuxFamily Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes 1999
Name Ad-free CVS SVN Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Bounties Runs on all free software Online Support Manager Establish notes

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://tools.assembla.com/breakout/wiki/DevelopmentLicense is "open but not free"
  2. ^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides GIT Source Control Management, http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29964, retrieved on 2008-12-10 
  3. ^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides Mercurial (HG) Source Control Management, http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29963, retrieved on 2008-12-10 
  4. ^ BerliOS - The Open Source Mediator
  5. ^ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (2008-10-24), Bazaar on Savannah, http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106417, retrieved on 2008-12-10 
  6. ^ Developers of Google Code's project hosting service are responsive in the discussion group and in the issue tracker.
  7. ^ Web help, email support, and IRC support.
  8. ^ http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHosting
  9. ^ Sarovar supports git indirectly, by providing an rsync service, which is one of the git transports.
  10. ^ ShareSource support officers are regularly on IRC at #sharesource and also in their Support Wiki.
  11. ^ SourceForge was previously free software before October 2001: [1]

[edit] Popularity

Name Users Projects Teams Branches Bug Reports Prominent projects
Alioth 8,579[1] 830[1] - - ? SANE
BountySource ? 815 - - -
CodePlex ? 7,827[2] - - ?
CVSDude 66,027[3] 52,520[3] ? - ?
Fedora Hosted ? 261 - - ?
Gitorious ? ? - ? - Laconica
GitHub ? ? - ? - Ruby on Rails, IronRuby
GNU Savannah 60,869[4] 3,023[4] - - ? Emacs, Autoconf, GNU bison, Data Display Debugger (DDD), Gnash, GRUB, Mailman, Octave, GNU Hurd
Google Code ? ? - - ? Google Gears, Inferno, Android, Chromium
Launchpad 2,591,222[5] 10,313[6] 4,407[5] 25,255[7] 313,877[8] Ubuntu, MySQL (code hosting), Zope 3 (bug tracking), Inkscape (bug tracking, translations), Bazaar, GNOME Do, Drizzle, Launchpad, Enlightenment
Origo ? 2,146 (512 projects are OSS)[9]
Project Kenai 3,931[10] 183[11]
SourceForge > 2,000,000[12] 167,658[13] - - ? Inkscape (code hosting), LAME, MinGW, Poedit, 7-Zip, Fluxbox, Audacity, ffdshow, EMule, FileZilla, phpMyAdmin
TuxFamily 2,381[14] 1,844[14]
tigris.org 137,324 1,547  ?  ? 143,800 Subversion, Subclipse, TortoiseSVN, RapidSVN, Scarab, ArgoUML, SubEtha, eyebrowse, midgard, cowiki, antelope, scons, frameworkx, build-interceptor, propel, phing, maxq, aut, current, ReadySET, GEF, Axion, Style, SSTree
Name Users Projects Teams Branches Bug Reports Prominent projects

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Alioth: Welcome
  2. ^ CodePlex - CodePlex - Project Directory
  3. ^ a b Subversion Hosting & CVS Hosting | Issue Tracking Software | CVSDude
  4. ^ a b Savannah
  5. ^ a b People and teams in Launchpad
  6. ^ Projects registered in Launchpad
  7. ^ Launchpad Code
  8. ^ Launchpad Bugs
  9. ^ Origo | Origo
  10. ^ People — Project Kenai
  11. ^ Projects — Project Kenai
  12. ^ What is SourceForge.net?
  13. ^ [2]
  14. ^ a b Tuxfamily : Free hosting for free people

[edit] Specific requirements

Name Ad-free CVS SVN Arch git notes
CakeForge No No Yes No Only for CakePHP related projects.
Drupal Yes Yes No No Only for Drupal related projects.
freedesktop.org Yes Yes No No Yes X.Org, cairo (graphics), and other Linux desktop infrastructure projects.
GBorg No Yes No No Only for PostgreSQL related projects.
Gna! Yes Yes Yes Yes No Only for FSF-recognized free software projects.
mambo-code.org Yes Yes Yes Only for Mambo (software) related free software projects. Previously known as Mambo Forge.
Mac OS Forge Yes No Yes No No Only for Mac OS X related projects.
OSPDev Yes Yes Yes No Only for OpenSource projects.
JavaForge Yes Yes Yes No Only for Java related projects. Plugins available for Eclipse and NetBeans
JoomlaCode Yes Yes Yes Only for Joomla! related development. Previously known as JoomlaForge
LuaForge Yes Yes No No Only for Lua related projects
mozdev Yes Yes No No Only for Mozilla related projects.
OCaml Forge Yes Yes Yes No No Only for OCaml related projects
Openmoko Yes Yes Yes No No Only for Openmoko related projects
pgfoundry No Yes Yes No Only for PostgreSQL related projects
RubyForge Yes Yes Yes No Yes Only for Ruby related projects
SqueakSource Yes No No No Only for Squeak related projects
SugarForge Yes Yes No No Only for SugarCRM related projects
SEUL.org Yes Yes Yes No Only for projects licensed under a DFSG-compatible license.
AdmiSource Yes Yes Yes No Only for projects endorsed by administration, and under free software licence.
Common-Lisp.Net Yes Yes Yes No Only for projects written in or related to Common Lisp. Darcs available, too.
TYPO3 Forge Yes No Yes No No Only for TYPO3 related projects.

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