Talk:Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

Re-adding CodePlex entry based requirements update

CodePlex updated their project requirements page to say project requirement is compliance with the open source definition. Re-adding entry. -- jwanagel 10:54, 22 Feb 2007 (UTC)

The kind of question this article should answer

Suppose I have a module that I wanted to release under the GPL, and I wouldn't want to hand over the copyright to someone else or something similar (like SourceForge), and it wouldn't be appropriate for limited scope websites or websites with per-project approval regimes (like Savannah), where do I go? Isn't answering questions like that that the whole point of this article? Shinobu (talk) 13:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that sounds like something that people reading this article would want to know.

So I added a sentence at the start of this article stating that every one of the sites listed here -- including SourceForge -- you retain copyright of all the code you write.

Does that answer that question?

Today the Sourceforge "terms of use" says "PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS, ... IN ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT."

May I ask why Shinobu thought a writer might need to hand over the copyright to someone else at SourceForge or any other site? --DavidCary (talk) 15:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Berlios has mercurial support

according to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MercurialHosting

Is xmlbasedsrs a prominent project?

This project seems dead from the 2003. You can call it prominent? The only traffic in its mailing list is spam: http://xmlbasedsrs.tigris.org/ds/viewForums.do

Bogus 'prominent' emulator projects

Someone seems to have added a bunch of non-prominent emulators to the list of prominent projects. The lists must therefore be considered a complete subjective fantasy. Someone should at least make an effort to find some top-ranked projects (#downloads, pagerank, etc.) instead of just putting their favorites in here. I write this as the author of a 'prominent' emulator project which is !LOL! not prominent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.115.137.86 (talk) 09:42, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Launchpad forums?

As far as I know the Launchpad doesn't offer forum functionality. They have Answers which is a knowledge base type thing.

New column to feature table: Knowledge base

Some hosting facilities provide a knowledge base. For example Lauchpad has Answers.

Berlios effectively closing

"The reorientation and associated closure of the highly frequented development platform for April, 30th 2014 makes it necessary to migrate the on berliOS hosted projects to other platforms." http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=39220 MarkMLl (talk) 13:27, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Jurisdiction of each service

It would be very interesting if somebody could determine the controlling jurisdiction applicable to each of the services. As a particular example, Sourceforge declines to serve projects to Cuba at the behest of the US government, and I think it would be useful if that could be made explicit. MarkMLl (talk) 13:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Why is this called "Comparison of open-source software hosting facilities"?

Actually this is a list about various source control version hosting facilities. Neither do they all run on open-source software nor are they exclusive to open-source software. So I don't see why there is an "open-source" in title? Wikiinger (talk) 00:49, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

[x] Done Wikiinger (talk) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually the 'software' in "Comparison of source code software hosting facilities" is also superfluously, since:

1. this list doesn't relate to software, but to hosting facilities,
2. the hosting cannot be only used for software source code, but for any kind of (source) code, e.g. web pages.

Wikiinger (talk) 23:39, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

[x] Fixed Wikiinger (talk) 00:06, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

General Overview add programming language?

In the general overview I would like to add a column Programming Language / Language written in (naming?) This is especially useful in-case of open-source projects e.g. when you want to contribute or setup your own instance, etc. However to keep the colum numbers small I would like to move Manager in Name, ie:

Name (Manager)	Established	Notes	Countries blocked	Programming Language	Runs on all free software	Ad-free
Alioth (Debian Project)	2003	Preference for Debian related projects		PHP	Yes	Yes

Thoughts? Wikiinger (talk) 01:02, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

For me the language in which the webservice is programmed in is not importand enought to include it in this table. --Txt.file (talk) 11:45, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes ShalokShalom (talk) 13:01, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Github blocked in Russia and India

According to the Github article, Github has been blocked in India and Russia. Unless the block has now been removed, the article/references should be updated to reflect this. GoBusto (talk) 08:52, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

No mainframe tools?

There do not appear to be any mainframe products here. Is source code storage/control only relevant on LUW? DEddy (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Gogs

Is this far enough developed, in order to include it: http://gogs.io/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShalokShalom (talk • contribs) 13:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

But Gogs is a git server and not a source code hosting facility. I think Gogs rather belong in the Git_(software)#Git_server section. --Zonkmachine (talk) 02:53, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

That is a misunderstanding, Zonkmachine. Gogs calls itself the “Go Git Service”, and it clearly falls into the same category of tools as, say, GitLab because both have drawn a lot of inspiration from GitHub. So of course they are all source code hosting facilities and should enter the comparison. --ChPietsch (talk) 12:30, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Robots.txt protocols

add to the table somewhere about some kind of general or unique robots/crawlers operation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.67.177.42 (talk) 19:33, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Please start Comparison of collaborative development environments

. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.245.53.33 (talk) 04:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

general category article

Is there an article that discusses the general category of the kind of things listed in this "Comparison of source code hosting facilities" article? Many Wikipedia articles use the phrase "web-based project-management and collaboration" or the phrase "source code hosting". I want to to improve those articles by making that phrase in those articles, and in the introduction to this "Comparison of source code hosting facilities" article, link or redirect to an article about that general category.

I suppose all these things could be considered a kind of shared web hosting service or free web hosting service (or both?), but my understanding is that this particular sub-category is notable enough for its own article. --DavidCary (talk) 16:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

GitLab is open source

Could anyone explain why GitLab Community Edition is not marked as free software? It's published on terms of MIT license. Deetah (talk) 14:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

I found a good source and corrected this Stefan Nagy (talk) 14:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Large number of hosting services removed with no explanation

I added two sites to the "Specialized hosting facilities" section. The sites both focus on R packages, similar to Drupal.org's hosting of Drupal modules. However, both sites were subsequently removed with no explanation, and then the same user removed 17 other sites (from other parts of the same page) with little explanation. Is there a specific objection I could address? Kenahoo (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

They removed entries without an article. Most list/comparison-type articles only include entries that have an article, otherwise the list gets unmanageable with no criteria for what's added (see WP:WTAF). But it should really be listed on the page that this is the case. Greenman (talk) 19:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Write the article first is not policy, it is an opinion; and it is misapplied in this case. ALso "One of the main distinctions between lists and article categories in that lists may contain non-notable entries". Deletions have made Wikipedia less useful. GangofOne (talk) 23:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

It's a perfectly acceptable inclusion criteria, especially when no other has been offered that I've noticed. --Ronz (talk) 20:28, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Apache Allura is missing

Apache Allura indicates it includes git management — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.245.13 (talk) 11:33, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Repeated Deletion of entries

There has been repeated deletion of entries without justification. Editors cite WP:GNG and WP:NOTDIR, however, these policies are being misapplied to lists. Some entries already have articles on Wikipedia (for example Deveo), and if notability is called into question, WP:FAILN should be employed. As mentioned in previous discussions here, lists may contain entries with questionable notability, "Non-notable topics with closely related notable articles or lists are often merged into those pages". YetAnotherAlias (talk) 13:25, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm fine with waiting until the AFD on Deveo is completed to remove it. - MrOllie (talk) 14:14, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Note: This issue has now been resolved. See Talk:List of tools for code review for details. FleetCommand (Speak your mind!) 17:33, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Tesarius

In table General information column Server side: all free software
What does it mean? All features or only based, enought for basic common tasks?
For example, in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Most of functions and features are absolute free for teams, which consists no more than 5 members

You can follow the link to read about Free software. Free as in libre, not gratis. Greenman (talk) 19:00, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

In table Features column Shell server
What does it mean? SSH?

Yes, presumably. See [1] - each of those claims should be referenced so as to allow followup. Greenman (talk) 19:00, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

User counts

I have asked Gitlab.com to provide more recent user counts. On IRC they originally declined, pointing me to press@gitlab.com, which I contacted, waiting for feedback. I also noticed that the source for the Github numbers is not clear at all, and made that more obvious in the article. More generally, one has to wonder how relevant is the number of users - the number of *active* users would be more important - it's one of the reasons why Gitlab declined to share their numbers, as they felt it would be disengenuous. --TheAnarcat (talk) 16:34, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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What Determines Inclusion/Exclusion of Products?

New to Wikipedia here, what criteria do y'all use to decide whether or not to include a specific product? I'm surprised Perforce is not listed in this article. If that's intentional, why?
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Entries here need to be notable and have their own article. See WP:NOTABILITY. Greenman (talk) 18:50, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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possible additions

• http://gforge.inria.fr math, crypto etc GangofOne (talk) 20:49, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
• http://tuxfamily.org or better, https://projects.tuxfamily.org/
• https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua GangofOne (talk) 08:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
• https://pagure.io related to fedora GangofOne (talk) 02:21, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
• https://notabug.org/ free code hosting, a Peers community project, clone of gogs software GangofOne (talk) 22:33, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Status of Tigris.org

Tigris.org should removed from this comparison due to the unclear and irrelevant state of it as a service. They have not been accepting new projects since 2014 and the last update posted on their blog was in 2013, making Tigris.org basically irrelevant to this comparison in 2017 since on one can start a new project there. I'm not entirely sure what CollabNet or the admins are doing with the site, but right now it looks like its completely dead.

GKarastergios (talk) 23:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Old Content For Github

Github uses Github Desktop as a CDE — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richienb (talk • contribs) 08:27, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Tuleap should be added

Tuleap (project management) should be included in this list. It's available with support; or do-it-yourself with the free sources. GregRundlett (talk) 21:44, 12 June 2018 (UTC)