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.

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Overview[edit]

General information[edit]

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 plan subscriptions for 1 user and up to 3 projects. Free/public projects with 2 GB of storage. Commercial projects with customizable sets of tools and features. No Yes
BerliOS FOKUS[1] 2000 ? 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
CodeHaus 26 February 2003 No No
CodePlex Microsoft May 2006 No No
Deveo Eficode Dec 2012 Free repositories for an organization of up to two users. No Yes
Fedora Hosted Fedora Project Yes Yes
Freepository 1999 Free accounts have web access only. Yes Yes
GitHub GitHub, Inc April 2008 Free for open source, paid for private. No Yes
Gitorious Shortcut AS January 2008 Free for open-source projects. Yes Yes
Gna! Only for projects with a GPL compatible license Yes Yes
GNU Savannah Savannah Administration Project by the Free Software Foundation. Yes Yes
Google Code Google 27 July 2006 Free. For open-source projects only. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[2] No Yes
JavaForge Intland Software 2005 Free. For open-source projects only. No Yes
Launchpad Canonical Ltd. 2004 No[3] Yes
Ourproject.org For free software, free culture and free knowledge projects. ? Yes
OW2 Consortium OW2 Consortium oriented on middleware technology. ? Yes
repo.or.cz Petr Baudis 400 MB Free Yes Yes
SEUL.org May 1997 ? Yes
SourceForge Dice Holdings November 1999 Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[4] No No
Tigris.org (community) 2000 Restricted to collaborative software development tools. ? No

Features[edit]

Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team
Alioth No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Assembla Yes[5] Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes[6] Yes Yes Yes
BerliOS ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes[7] ? ?
Bitbucket Yes[8] Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes[n 1] No No Yes
CloudForge ? Yes No Yes No No No No ? ? ? ? ?
CodeHaus No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No No No Yes ?
CodePlex No Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No No
Fedora Hosted Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No No
GitHub Yes[9] Yes[10] Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes[n 2] No No Yes
Gitorious Yes No No Yes No No No No Yes No No No Yes
Gna! ? Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes No ? No ? No ?
GNU Savannah Yes[11] Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No[12] No No Yes No Yes
Google Code Yes Yes Yes[n 3] Yes No No Yes[n 3] No Yes[n 4] No No No No
JavaForge Yes[13] Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
java.net ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Launchpad Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes[n 5] Yes Yes[n 6] Yes
Ourproject.org ? Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ?
SourceForge No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[14] Yes No Yes
tigris.org No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ?
Name' Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team

Other features[edit]

  • Alioth: Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
  • Assembla: Ticket backlog planning, Ticket flow control (Cardwall), Ticket tags that allow a better tasks organization [15], FTP, Time Tracking, StandUp Reporting, File Sharing, Google Docs Integration, API [16], 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 [17], Space Manager (tool for master/child relations between projects) [18], Merge Requests [19], Protected Branches [20]
  • BerliOS: FTP, MySQL
  • Bitbucket: OpenID, visualizations
  • Codeplex: Windows Live ID
  • GitHub: Public API,[21] static web-page hosting,[22] pastebin service Gist,[23] 3D model support[24]
  • Gitorious: OpenID[n 7]
  • 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[edit]

Name CVS SVN GNU Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Perforce
Alioth Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
Assembla No Yes No No No Yes No Yes
BerliOS Yes Yes No No No Yes[25] Yes[26] ?
Betavine Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Bitbucket No No No No No Yes Yes ?
CodeHaus yes but deprecated[27] Yes No No No Yes[28] No ?
CodePlex No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ?
Deveo No Yes No No No Yes Yes ?
Fedora Hosted No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
Freepository No Yes No No No No No ?
GitHub No Yes No No No Yes No ?
Gitorious No No No No No Yes No ?
Gna! Yes Yes No No Yes No No ?
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes[29] No Yes Yes Yes ?
Google Code No Yes No No No Yes Yes ?
java.net No Yes[30] No No No Yes[30] Yes[30] ?
JavaForge Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes ?
Launchpad Import only Import only Yes No No Import only[31] Import only[32] ?
Ourproject.org Yes Yes No No No No No ?
OW2 Consortium Yes Yes No No No No No ?
SEUL.org Yes Yes No No No No No ?
SourceForge Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
Tigris.org Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Name CVS SVN GNU Bazaar Microsoft TFS Arch Git Mercurial Perforce

Popularity[edit]

Name Users Projects Prominent projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Alioth 700412947000000000012,947[33][dated info] 7002958000000000000958[33][dated info] SANE N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla 7005800000000000000800,000[34] 700460000000000000060,000+[35] GXUnit, Hikarunix, HippoMocks, MadSwatter, SnakeYAML, Scala IDE 70038143000000000008,143[36]
BerliOS 700452811000000000052,811[37] 70034863000000000004,863[37] aMule, avidemux, SuperTux, LinCity-NG 700432079000000000032,079[38]
Bitbucket 70061000000000000001,000,000[39] 700493661000000000093,661[40] OGRE, TortoiseHg, Codeigniter, Pylons, Sphinx 70035210000000000005,210[41]
CodeHaus ? 7002297000000000000297[42] 700425000000000000025,000[43]
CodePlex 7005151782000000000151,782 700432159000000000032,159[44] ASP.NET MVC Framework, Entity Framework, IronPython, Cosmos 70032217000000000002,217[45]
Fedora Hosted ? 7002411000000000000411[46]
GitHub 70063483289000000003,483,289[47] ? Ruby on Rails, IronRuby, jQuery, Moodle, Diaspora, node.js, NumPy, Spring Framework, PHP, SciPy 7002210000000000000210[48]
Gitorious ?[n 8] 700429760000000000029,760[49] Qt, MeeGo 700435600000000000035,600[50]
Gna! 700417065000000000017,065 70031390000000000001,390 700498892000000000098,892
GNU Savannah 700457591000000000057,591[51] 70033487000000000003,487[51] Most GNU projects (including Emacs), QEMU 700458704000000000058,704[52] (approximation)
Google Code ?[n 8] 7005250000000000000250,000+[53] Google Gears, Inferno, Android, Chromium N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Launchpad 70061785318000000001,785,318[54] 700430282000000000030,282[55] Ubuntu, MySQL (code hosting), BlueBream (Zope 3) (bug tracking), Inkscape, Bazaar, GNOME Do, Drizzle, Launchpad, Enlightenment, LiVES (translations) 70037091000000000007,091[56]
SourceForge 70062000000000000002,000,000+[57] 7005230000000000000230,000[57] Inkscape (download hosting), LAME, MinGW, Poedit, 7-Zip, Fluxbox, Audacity, ffdshow, EMule, FileZilla, phpMyAdmin, LiVES 7002163000000000000163[58]
Tigris.org ?[n 8] 7002684000000000000684 Subversion,[n 9] TortoiseSVN, RapidSVN 700426077000000000026,077[59]
Name Users Projects 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[edit]

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.
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[edit]

Portal icon Free software portal

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
  2. ^ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
  3. ^ a b outside
  4. ^ git and mercurial only
  5. ^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
  6. ^ Ubuntu
  7. ^ site is open source, see Gitorious' code on Gitorious
  8. ^ a b c Data not available.]
  9. ^ Bug tracking only, as a legacy service after the Subversion project migrated to the Apache Software Foundation.

References[edit]

  1. ^ BerliOS – The Open Source Mediator
  2. ^ Google Project Hosting – Google Code. Code.google.com (20 July 2006). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
  3. ^ "Setting up commercial projects quickly : Launchpad Blog". Canonical Ltd. Retrieved 2013-06-03. 
  4. ^ Terms_of_Use – sitelegal. Sourceforge.net (19 October 2009). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
  5. ^ Assembla Merge Requests
  6. ^ Pricing/Plans — assembla.com
  7. ^ http://developer.berlios.de/
  8. ^ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
  9. ^ GitHub Pull Requests
  10. ^ GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
  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. ^ Integrator Workflow: Pull Requests – codeBeamer Knowledge Base
  14. ^ Only in Beta 2.0
  15. ^ Ticket Tags explanation
  16. ^ Assembla API documentation
  17. ^ How to Focus your Team with Custom Tabs
  18. ^ Space Manager announcement
  19. ^ Advanced Merge Requests for Git
  20. ^ Introducing Protected Branches
  21. ^ GitHub API docs
  22. ^ GitHub pages
  23. ^ Gist is a pastebin service operated by GitHub
  24. ^ STL File Viewing
  25. ^ News, BerliOS Project (5 July 2008), BerliOS provides GIT Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  26. ^ News, BerliOS Project (5 July 2008), BerliOS provides Mercurial (HG) Source Control Management, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  27. ^ http://docs.codehaus.org/display/HAUSMATES/Services
  28. ^ http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CODEHAUS/Git
  29. ^ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (24 October 2008), GNU Bazaar on Savannah, retrieved 2008-12-10 
  30. ^ a b c "java.net Managing a Project: Source Code Repository". 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013. 
  31. ^ Launchpad supports Git imports.
  32. ^ Accessing Git, Subversion and Mercurial from Bazaar.
  33. ^ a b Alioth: Welcome
  34. ^ Assembla: Home
  35. ^ "Assembla integrates with Basecamp and offers workspaces and portfolios for distributed agile development teams". 37signals. 6 March 2009. 
  36. ^ Assembla.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  37. ^ a b BerliOS Developer Portal
  38. ^ Berlios.de Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.
  39. ^ Altlassian Bitbucket passes one million users - Bitbucket Blog
  40. ^ Repository List
  41. ^ Bitbucket.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  42. ^ CodeHaus Projects index
  43. ^ Codehaus.org Site Info. Alexa.com.
  44. ^ CodePlex – CodePlex – Project Directory
  45. ^ Codeplex.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  46. ^ Fedora Hosted project list. Retrieved on 2013-05-22.
  47. ^ GitHub Press Page. Retrieved on 2013-03-05.
  48. ^ Github.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-03-05.
  49. ^ Projects. Gitorious.org. Retrieved on 2012-11-25.
  50. ^ Gitorious.org Site Info. Alexa.com (28 October 2009). Retrieved on 4 August 2012.
  51. ^ a b Statistics – Savannah. gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  52. ^ Nongnu.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.
  53. ^ Rosenberg, Jonathan (21 December 2009). "The meaning of open". Official Google blog.
  54. ^ People and teams in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
  55. ^ Projects registered in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02
  56. ^ Launchpad.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  57. ^ a b "What is SourceForge.net?" sourceforge.net.
  58. ^ Sourceforge.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
  59. ^ Tigris.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.

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