Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
A source-code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility where a large amount of source code, for software or for web pages, is kept, either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software 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 code hosting facilities, including the "non-gnu" section of GNU Savannah—with the exception of contributors to Free Software Foundation (FSF)-copyrighted programs at GNU Savannah.[1][2][3]
General information
Name | Manager | Established | Server side: all free software | Client side: all-free JS code | Developed or used CDE | Require free software on registration | Ad-free | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assembla | Assembla, Inc | 2005 | No | Unknown | Unknown | No | Yes | |
Azure DevOps | Microsoft | 2012[4] | No | No | Azure DevOps (web interface) | No | Yes | Most features are free for open source projects or teams of 5 members or less [5] |
Bitbucket | Atlassian | 2008 | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria |
Buddy | Buddy, LLC. | 2015 | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Cloud version free for 1 project with no limit on size. Self-hosted version free up to 10 users with Fair Source license[6] applied. |
CloudForge | CollabNet | 2012 | No | Unknown | Unknown | No | Yes | |
GitHub | GitHub, Inc | 2008-04 | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | List of government takedown requests: [1] |
GitLab | GitLab Inc. | 2011-09[7] | Partial[8] | Yes[9] | GitLab Community Edition (CE) — free software GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) — proprietary |
No | Yes | Denies Service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria[10] |
Gitea | Unknown | 2016 | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Gitea is an open-source software tool funded on Open Collective that is designed for self-hosting, but also provides a free first-party instance. |
GNU Savannah | Savannah Administration | 2001-01 | Yes | Yes | Savane | Yes | Yes | Project by the Free Software Foundation and projects with a GPL compatible license. Staff must approve requests for project approval, deletion, and so forth, which can take time if staffing levels are low. Code access review[11] |
Helix TeamHub | Perforce Software | 1995 | No | No | Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version requires a license. | No | Yes | Free cloud version has no limits on projects within 5gb storage limit.
On-premises version has DevOps pipeline technology and free replicas. |
Launchpad | Canonical | 2004 | Yes | No | Launchpad | No | Yes | Supports Bazaar and Git for version-controlled repository hosting.[12][13] |
OSDN | OSDN K.K. (Q11237954) | 2002–04 | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | No | No | For open-source projects only.[14] |
Ourproject.org | Comunes Collective | 2002 | Yes | Yes | FusionForge | No | Yes | For free software, free culture and free content projects. |
OW2 Consortium | OW2 Consortium | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Oriented on middleware technology. |
Phabricator | Phacility, Inc | 2010 | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Hosted option provided by Phacility |
Rosetta Code | Unknown | 2007 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Programming chrestomathy wiki for common algorithms |
SEUL | Unknown | 1997-05 | Unknown | No | Unknown | No | Yes | |
SourceForge | BizX LLC | 1999-11 | Yes[15][16] | Yes | Apache Allura | No | No | For open-source projects only.[17] Denies service when accessed from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[18] |
Name | Manager | Established | Server side: all free software | Client side: all-free JS code | Developed or used CDE | Require free software on registration | Ad-free | Notes |
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 | Self-hosting |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assembla | Yes[19] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[20] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
Azure DevOps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Commercially (Azure DevOps Server) |
Bitbucket | Yes[21] | Yes[a] | Yes[22] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[b] | No | Yes[23] | Yes | No[24] | Commercially (BitBucket Server formerly Stash)[c] |
Buddy | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[d] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CloudForge | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
Gitea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[25] | Yes | Unknown | Yes |
GitHub | Yes[26] | Yes[27][e] | Yes[28] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[29] | Yes | Yes | Commercially (GitHub Enterprise) |
GitLab | Yes[30] | Yes | Yes[31] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[32] | Yes | Yes[33] | Yes[f] |
GNU Savannah | Yes[34] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No[35] | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown | Yes |
Helix TeamHub | Yes[36] | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, with hooks. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc. | No | Yes | Yes |
java.net/Project Kenai | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
Kallithea | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Launchpad | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[g] | Yes | Yes[h] | Yes | Unknown | Yes |
OSDN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Ourproject.org | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes |
Phabricator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes |
RhodeCode | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SourceForge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[i] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 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 | Self-hosting |
Version control systems
Name | CVS | Git | Hg | SVN | BZR | TFVC | Arch | Perforce | Fossil |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assembla | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Azure DevOps | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Bitbucket | No | Yes | Until Feb 2020[j] | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Buddy | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CloudForge | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Gitea | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
GitHub | No | Yes | No | Partial[37] | No | No | No | No | No |
GitLab | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
GNU Savannah | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[38] | No | Yes | No | No |
java.net | No | Yes[39] | Yes[39] | Yes[39] | No | No | No | No | No |
Kallithea | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Launchpad | Import only | Yes[13][40] | Import only[41] | Import only | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown |
OSDN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Ourproject.org | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
OW2 Consortium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Helix TeamHub | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Phabricator | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
RhodeCode | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
SEUL.org | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
SourceForge | Dropped[42] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped[43] | No | No | Unknown | Yes |
Sourcehut | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Name | CVS | Git | Hg | SVN | BZR | TFVC | Arch | Perforce | Fossil |
Popularity
Name | Users | Projects | Alexa rank (lower = more popular) |
---|---|---|---|
Assembla | Unknown | 526,581+[44] | 37,451 as of 25 December 2018[update][45] |
Bitbucket | 5,000,000[46] | Unknown | 869 as of 25 December 2018[update][47] |
Gitea | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
GitHub | 31,000,000[48] | 100,000,000[48] | 61 as of 25 December 2018[update][49] |
GitLab | 100,000[50] | 546,000[51][k] | 1,885 as of 25 December 2018[update][52] |
GNU Savannah | 93,346[53] | 3,848[53] | 67,386 as of 25 December 2018[update][54] |
Launchpad | 3,965,288[55] | 40,881[56] | 7,481 as of 25 December 2018[update][57] |
OSDN | 54,826[58] | 6,294[58] | 6,429 as of 25 December 2018[update][59] |
Ourproject.org | 6,353[60] | 1,846[60] | 794,540 as of 25 December 2018[update][61] |
Phabricator | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
SourceForge | 3,700,000[62] | 500,000[62] | 377 as of 25 December 2018[update][63] |
Name | Users | Projects | Alexa rank (lower = more popular) |
Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code.
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 | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drupal | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Only for Drupal related projects. |
freedesktop.org | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Only for interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments on Gnu and other Unix-like operating systems, including the X Window System (X11) and cairo (graphics). |
mozdev.org | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | No | Only for Mozilla-related projects. |
Name | Ad-free | CVS | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes |
Former hosting facilities
- BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014[64]
- Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
- Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
- Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/ .
- Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017 [65]
- Gna! Gna.org shutdown 2017.
- CodePlex CodePlex shut down in December 2017.
- Alioth (Debian) In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018.
See also
- Comparison of version-control software
- Distributed version control
- Forge (software)
- List of free-software-project directories
- List of version-control software
- Source-code escrow for closed-source software
- Version control (source-code-management systems)
Notes
- ^ Anyone can submit Bug Reports without logging in.
- ^ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
- ^ Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
- ^ Builds are run in Docker containers
- ^ Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
- ^ Has an open source Community Edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
- ^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
- ^ Ubuntu
- ^ Private repositories can be used to set up a project before going live. However, SourceForge requires that the project remains open source. See SourceForge Support.
- ^ Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
- ^ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.
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