Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
Appearance
A comparison of facilities that host open source development services.
General software
Name | Website | Ad-free | CVS | SVN | Bazaar | 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 | No | 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 | ? | ? | Free open source project hosting. |
github | http://github.com/ | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | git repository hosting. |
GNU Savannah | http://savannah.gnu.org/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 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 | ? | 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[1] | 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 |
Notes
- ^ Sarovar supports git indirectly, by providing an rsync service, which is one of the git transports.
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 | |
pgfoundry | http://www.pgfoundry.org/ | No | Yes | Yes | No | Only for PostgreSQL related projects | ||
RubyForge | http://rubyforge.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 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 | No | No | Only for projects written in or related to Common Lisp. Darcs available, too. |