Comparison of open source software hosting facilities

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A source code repository or source code escrow^{[citation needed]} 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 sourceprojects and other multi-developer projects to handle various versions and developers submitting various patches of code in an organized fashion. Often these web sites support version control, bug tracking, release management, mailing lists, and wiki based documentation.

Below follows a comparison of open source code repositories.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Features 1.2 Available version control systems, more features 1.3 Popularity 2 Specific requirements 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

Overview

Features

Name	Code hosting	Code review	Bug tracking	Web hosting	Wiki	Translation system	Shell server	Mailing List	Forum	Personal branch	Private branch	Announce	Build system	Team	Countries blocked	Other features
Alioth	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No		Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
Assembla	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes[1]	Yes	Yes	Yes		FTP, Time Tracking, StandUp Reporting, File Sharing, Google Docs Integration, API
BerliOS	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes[2]	?	?		FTP, MySQL
BetterCodes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes		OpenID, Files Upload, Social Network
Bitbucket	Yes	Yes[3]	Yes	Yes[n 1]	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes[n 2]	No	No	Yes		OpenID
CodePlex	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		Windows Live ID
GitEnterprise	Yes [4]	Yes [5]	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No		OpenID /LDAPAuthentication and Audit-trail.[6]
GitHub	Yes[n 3]	Yes[7]	Yes[8]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes[n 3]	No	No	Yes		Public API,[9]static web-page hosting[10]
Gitorious	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes		OpenID[n 4]
GNU Savannah	Yes	Yes[11]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No[12]	No	No	Yes	No	Yes		Free software code base
Google Code	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[n 5]	Yes	No	No	Yes[n 5]	No	Yes[n 6]	No	No	No	No	Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[13]
JavaForge	Yes	Yes[14]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Public remote API, Document management
java.net	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
KnowledgeForge	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes		Written in Python. All code open source.
Launchpad	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes[n 7]	Yes	Yes[n 8]	Yes		Blueprints, Karma, Answer, Mail interface, public API, OpenIDProvider, Download area, Non-project branch, this is opensource
openSUSE Build Service	No	No	Yes[n 5]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes [n 9]	No		public API
OSOR.eu	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	No	?		Metrics, OSS Observatory, Communities, Webconference – only for projects sponsored by public administrators (or specific interest for)
Project Kenai	Yes[n 10]	No	Yes[n 11]	No	Yes[n 12]	No	No	Yes[n 10]	Yes[n 10]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No		Download area, IM Chatroom, public API, project website, extensive help, code can be hidden
RepositoryHosting.com	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes		Trac hosting, free backups to S3, Agile tools, project blog, WebDAV shared drives
SourceForge	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[15]	Help Wanted,OpenIDRelying Party, Download area
tigris.org	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?		public API, extensive help
Transifex	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes		Translation service, runs on open-source software.
CodePigeon.com	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		host PHP,HTML and Javascript
Name	Code hosting	Code review	Bug tracking	Web hosting	Wiki	Translation system	Shell server	Mailing List	Forum	Personal branch	Private branch	Announce	Build system	Team	Countries blocked	Other features

Available version control systems, more features

Name	CVS	SVN	Bazaar	Microsoft TFS	Arch	Git	Mercurial	Bounties	Runs on all free software	Online Support	Manager	Established	notes
Alioth	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Debian Project	2003	Preference forDebianrelated projects.
Assembla	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No[n 13]	Yes	Assembla, LLC		2 GB Free. Ticket Tool. Wiki. Scrum Reports. Trac.
BerliOS	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes[16]	Yes[17]	No	?	?	FOKUS[18]	2000	Funded by German government until 2002. Now funded by Fraunhofer FOKUS. Will be transferred to non-profit association[19]
Betavine	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	Vodafone	2007
Bitbucket	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	No	Yes	Atlassian	2008	Free plan has unlimited public repos and unlimited 5 user private repos; basic issue-tracking; visualizations; wiki
BountySource	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	?	?	Bounty Source Inc.	late 2003	Allows monetary bounties on tasks. CustomCMS andSVNbrowser.
CodePlex	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	Microsoft	May 2006
Freepository	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	?	?		1999	Provides free and paid accounts. Free accounts have web access only.
GitEnterprise	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	GerritForge LLP	June 2010	Git and Gerrit Code Review integrations for the Enterprise
GitHub	No	yes (experimental git-svn bridge)	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	GitHub, Inc	April 2008	Git Hosting. Free for open source, paid for private.
Gitorious	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Shortcut AS	January 2008	Git Hosting. Free for open source projects.
GNU Savannah	Yes	Yes	Yes[20]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Savannah Administration		Project by theFree Software Foundation.
Google Code	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes[n 14]	Google	27 July 2006
JavaForge	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Intland Software	2005	Free. For open source projects only.
KnowledgeForge	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Appropriate Software Foundationand Open Knowledge Foundation	2005	Associates VCS and Trac project services.
Launchpad	Import only	Import only	Yes	No	No	Import only[21]	Import only[22]	No	Yes	Yes[23]	Canonical Ltd.	2005	CVS, Git, SVN are imported to Bazaar format. Accounts can be used as OpenIDs (and Ubuntu SSO accounts).
OSOR.eu	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	European Commission	October 2008	Launched by The European Commission. Collaboration with national/local forges.
OW2 Consortium	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	OW2 Consortium		Merger of ObjectWeb and Orientware; oriented onmiddlewaretechnology.
Project Kenai	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Oracle Corporation	October 2008
RepositoryHosting.com	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Repository Hosting LLC	January 2009	Unlimited projects and users, and 2GB, for $6 per month. $1 per month for each additional GB.
SEUL.org	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?		May 1997
SourceForge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No[24]	Yes[25]	Geeknet, Inc. (Formerly VA Software)	November 1999
Tigris.org	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	(community)	2000	Restricted to collaborative software development tools.
Name	CVS	SVN	Bazaar	Microsoft TFS	Arch	Git	Mercurial	Bounties	Runs on allfree software	Online Support	Manager	Established	notes

Popularity

Name	Users	Projects	Teams	Branches	Bug Reports	Prominent projects	Alexa rank (lower=better)
Alioth	10,334[26]	899[26]	–	–	?	SANE	N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla	300,000[27]	60,000+[28]	1,000+[29]	?	?	Gfire, GXUnit, Hikarunix, HippoMocks, MadSwatter,SnakeYAML	6,621[30]
BerliOS	47,285[31]	5,448[31]	–	–	–	aMule, avidemux, SuperTux, LinCityNG	17,228[32]
Bitbucket	170,000+[33]	93,661[34]	–	–	–	OGRE, TortoiseHG, Codeigniter, TrinityCore, Aldrin, Pylons,Sphinx	13,366[35]
BountySource	?[n 15]	1,301[36]	–	–	–		1,427,614[37]
CodePlex	151,782	28,525[38]	–	–	?	Rawr, AJAX Control Toolkit, Silverlight Toolkit, BlogEngine.NET, IronPython, SharpMap, Cosmos	2,312[39]
GitHub	1,055,179[40]84,361[41]	259,253[41]repositories.885,030[42] Public non-forks.472,480[43] Public forks.1,285,402[44]Gists.2,970,571[40]Total.1	–	?	–	Ruby on Rails, IronRuby, jQuery, Moodle, Diaspora, node.js,NumPy, Spring Framework, PHP, SciPy	1,084[45]
Gitorious	?[n 15]	8,336[46]	?	?	–	Qt, MeeGo	28,054[47]
GNU Savannah	53,727[48]	3,384[48]	–	–	31,312[48]	Most GNU projects (including Emacs), QEMU	100,000[49](approximation)
Google Code	?[n 15]	250,000+[50]	–	–	?	Google Gears, Inferno, Android, Chromium	1,000[51](approximation)
KnowledgeForge.net	1,003[52]	246[52]	57	?	?	KForge, CKAN, DomainModel	1,233,611[53]
Launchpad	1,421,787[54]	27,141[55]	11,148[54]	428,269[56]	784,839[57]	Ubuntu, MySQL (code hosting), BlueBream (Zope 3) (bug tracking), Inkscape, Bazaar, GNOME Do, Drizzle, Launchpad,Enlightenment, LiVES (translations)	10,772[58]
Project Kenai	75,608[59]	17,958[60]				Sun Cloud APIs,JRuby, Alice	53,023[61]
SourceForge	2,000,000+[62]	352,680[63]	–	–	2,872,958 in the tracker2 database (i.e.trac and other offerings not counted)	Inkscape (download hosting), LAME, MinGW, Poedit, 7-Zip,Fluxbox, Audacity, ffdshow, EMule, FileZilla, phpMyAdmin,LiVES	132[64]
Tigris.org	?[n 15]	684	?	?	143,800	Subversion,[n 16] Subclipse, TortoiseSVN, RapidSVN, Scarab, ArgoUML, SubEtha, eyebrowse, midgard, cowiki, antelope, scons, frameworkx, build-interceptor, phing, maxq, aut, current, ReadySET, GEF, Axion, Style, SSTree	10,173[65]
Name	Users	Projects	Teams	Branches	Bug Reports	Prominent projects	Alexa rank (lower=better)

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.

Specific requirements

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	X.Org, cairo (graphics), and other Linux desktop infrastructure projects.
Gna!	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Only for FSF-recognized free software projects.
KnowledgeForge.net	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Primarily for Open Knowledge related projects.
JavaForge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Primarily for Java related projects. Plugins available for Eclipse and NetBeans
java.net	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Primarily for Java related projects.
LuaForge	Yes	Yes	No	No		Only for Lua related projects. Repository migrated to GitHub[66]
mozdev	Yes	Yes	No	No		Only for Mozilla related projects.
Openmoko	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Only for Openmoko related projects
RubyForge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Only for Ruby related projects
SEUL.org	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Only for projects licensed under a DFSG-compatible license.
Ourproject.org	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	For free software, free culture and free knowledge projects.
OSOR.eu	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Only for Free and open source software by/made/for public administrations.[67]
Name	Ad-free	CVS	SVN	Arch	Git	notes

See also

• Forge (software)
• List of free software project directories

Notes

1. ^ per account not per project, see Free hosting of e.g. documentation
2. ^ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
3. ^ ^a b "soft limit" of 300MB to prevent abuse, see Pricing — GitHub
4. ^ site is open source, see Gitorious' code on Gitorious
5. ^ ^a b c outside
6. ^ mercurial only
7. ^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
8. ^ Ubuntu
9. ^ SUSE, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu
10. ^ ^a b c max 5
11. ^ max 2
12. ^ max 1
13. ^ is "open but not free"
14. ^ Developers of Google Code's project hosting service are responsive in the discussion groupand in the issue tracker.
15. ^ ^a b c d Data not available.]
16. ^ Bug tracking only, as a legacy service after the Subversion project migratedto the Apache Software Foundation.

References

1. ^ Pricing/Plans — assembla.com
2. ^ http://developer.berlios.de/
3. ^ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
4. ^ Up to of 1GB and 10 users, see Pricing - GitEnterprise
5. ^ GitEnterprise provides Gerrit as a Service, powered by Gerrit (Software)
6. ^ GitEnterprise Audit-trail can help in producing log records for Sarbanes–Oxley_Act or CMMI Compliance reports.
7. ^ Fork Queue — GitHub
8. ^ GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
9. ^ GitHub API docs
10. ^ GitHub pages
11. ^ 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."
12. ^ From Savannah's documentation, this feature is deprecated. See
13. ^ Google Project Hosting – Google Code. Code.google.com (2006-07-20). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
14. ^ Integrator Workflow: Pull Requests - codeBeamer Knowledge Base
15. ^ Terms_of_Use - sitelegal. Sourceforge.net (2009-10-19). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
16. ^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides GIT Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10
17. ^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides Mercurial (HG) Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10
18. ^ BerliOS – The Open Source Mediator
19. ^ helix (2011-10-31). "BerliOS continues - non-profit association is founded". Project: BerliOS - Neuigkeiten. BerliOS.
20. ^ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (2008-10-24), Bazaar on Savannah, retrieved 2008-12-10
21. ^ Launchpad supports Git imports.
22. ^ Accessing Git, Subversion and Mercurial from Bazaar.
23. ^ Web help, email support, and IRC support.
24. ^ SourceForge.net: An Open Forge
25. ^ SourceForge.net: Site Support
26. ^ ^a b Alioth: Welcome
27. ^ Assembla: Home
28. ^ "Assembla integrates with Basecamp and offers workspaces and portfolios for distributed agile development teams". 37signals. March 6, 2009.
29. ^ "Assembla – Quick Review". JohnyCoder. August 7, 2008.
30. ^ Assembla.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
31. ^ ^a b BerliOS Developer Portal
32. ^ Berlios.de Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
33. ^ bitbucket blog
34. ^ Repository List
35. ^ Bitbucket.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
36. ^ Project list, Bounty Source
37. ^ Bountysource.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
38. ^ CodePlex – CodePlex – Project Directory
39. ^ Codeplex.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
40. ^ ^a b GitHub Home Page. Retrieved on 2011-10-13.
41. ^ ^a b [1]
42. ^ GitHub Search non-fork repositories. Retrieved on 2011-10-13.
43. ^ GitHub Search fork repositories. Retrieved on 2011-10-13.
44. ^ GitHub Gist. Retrieved on 2011-10-13.
45. ^ Github.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
46. ^ Projects. Gitorious.org. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
47. ^ Gitorious.org Site Info. Alexa.com (2009-10-28). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
48. ^ ^a b c Statistics - Savannah. gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
49. ^ Nongnu.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
50. ^ Rosenberg, Jonathan (December 21, 2009). "The meaning of open". Official Google blog.
51. ^ Google.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
52. ^ ^a b KnowledgeForge.net Home Page
53. ^ Knowledgeforge.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
54. ^ ^a b People and teams in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
55. ^ Projects registered in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2011-09-30
56. ^ Launchpad Code. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
57. ^ Launchpad Bugs. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
58. ^ Launchpad.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
59. ^ People — Project Kenai. projectkenai.com. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
60. ^ Projects — Project Kenai. projectkenai.com. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
61. ^ Kenai.com Site Info. Alexa.com (2010-08-28). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
62. ^ "What is SourceForge.net?"sourceforge.net.
63. ^ "Project search". sourceforge.net. Retrieved on 2011-07-18.
64. ^ Sourceforge.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
65. ^ Tigris.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
66. ^ "LuaForge Migration FAQ". luaforge.net. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
67. ^ OSOR.eu Ten Principles

External links

• Project Hostingat the Open Directory Project
• A list of free software hosting facilities
• An interactive revision hosting services comparison chart
• CodePigeon.com

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