Comparison of open source software hosting facilities Computer Science 464 pasar.pts-ptn.net

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.

1 Overview
2 Specific requirements
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

Overview

General information

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, LLC		Paid.		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
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
Freepository		1999	Free accounts have web access only.		Yes	Yes
GitHub	GitHub, Inc	April 2008	Free for open source, paid for private.		No	No
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.	2005			Yes	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^[3]	Yes^[4]	No
Tigris.org	(community)	2000	Restricted to collaborative software development tools.		?	No

Features

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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes^[5]	Yes	Yes	Yes
BerliOS	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes^[6]	?	?
Bitbucket	Yes^[7]	Yes	Yes^{[n 1]}	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes^{[n 2]}	No	No	Yes
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
GitHub	Yes^[8]	Yes^[9]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes ^{[n 3]}	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^[10]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No^[11]	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Google Code	Yes	Yes	Yes^{[n 4]}	Yes	No	No	Yes^{[n 4]}	No	Yes^{[n 5]}	No	No	No	No
JavaForge	Yes^[12]	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 6]}	Yes	Yes^{[n 7]}	Yes
Ourproject.org	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
SourceForge	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[13]	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

Alioth: Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP
Assembla: Ticket backlog planning, Ticket flow control (Cardwall), FTP, Time Tracking, StandUp Reporting, File Sharing, Google Docs Integration, API, Scrum reports
BerliOS: FTP, MySQL
Bitbucket: OpenID, visualizations
Codeplex: Windows Live ID
GitHub: Public API,^[14] static web-page hosting,^[15] pastebin service Gist^[16]
Gitorious: OpenID^{[n 8]}
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

Name	CVS	SVN	Bazaar	Microsoft TFS	Arch	Git	Mercurial
Alioth	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Assembla	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
BerliOS	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes^[17]	Yes^[18]
Betavine	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Bitbucket	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
CodeHaus	yes but deprecated^[19]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes^[20]	No
CodePlex	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Deveo	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Freepository	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
GitHub	No	yes (experimental git-svn bridge)	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^[21]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Google Code	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
java.net	No	Yes^[22]	No	No	No	Yes^[23]	Yes^[24]
JavaForge	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Launchpad	Import only	Import only	Yes	No	No	Import only^[25]	Import only^[26]
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	Bazaar	Microsoft TFS	Arch	Git	Mercurial

Popularity

Name	Users	Projects	Prominent projects	Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Alioth	700412947000000000012,947^[27]	7002958000000000000958^[27]	SANE	N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla	7005500000000000000500,000^[28]	700460000000000000060,000+^[29]	GXUnit, Hikarunix, HippoMocks, MadSwatter, SnakeYAML	70038143000000000008,143^[30]
BerliOS	700452811000000000052,811^[31]	70034863000000000004,863^[31]	aMule, avidemux, SuperTux, LinCity-NG	700432079000000000032,079^[32]
Bitbucket	7005170000000000000170,000+^[33]	700493661000000000093,661^[34]	OGRE, TortoiseHg, Codeigniter, Pylons, Sphinx	70035210000000000005,210^[35]
CodeHaus	?	7002297000000000000297^[36]		700425000000000000025,000^[37]
CodePlex	7005151782000000000151,782	700432159000000000032,159^[38]	ASP.NET MVC Framework, Entity Framework, IronPython, Cosmos	70032217000000000002,217^[39]
GitHub	70063483289000000003,483,289^[40]	?	Ruby on Rails, IronRuby, jQuery, Moodle, Diaspora, node.js, NumPy, Spring Framework, PHP, SciPy	7002210000000000000210^[41]
Gitorious	?^{[n 9]}	700429760000000000029,760^[42]	Qt, MeeGo	700435600000000000035,600^[43]
Gna!	700417065000000000017,065	70031390000000000001,390		700498892000000000098,892
GNU Savannah	700457591000000000057,591^[44]	70033487000000000003,487^[44]	Most GNU projects (including Emacs), QEMU	700458704000000000058,704^[45] (approximation)
Google Code	?^{[n 9]}	7005250000000000000250,000+^[46]	Google Gears, Inferno, Android, Chromium	N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Launchpad	70061785318000000001,785,318^[47]	700430282000000000030,282^[48]	Ubuntu, MySQL (code hosting), BlueBream (Zope 3) (bug tracking), Inkscape, Bazaar, GNOME Do, Drizzle, Launchpad, Enlightenment, LiVES (translations)	70037091000000000007,091^[49]
SourceForge	70062000000000000002,000,000+^[50]	7005230000000000000230,000^[50]	Inkscape (download hosting), LAME, MinGW, Poedit, 7-Zip, Fluxbox, Audacity, ffdshow, EMule, FileZilla, phpMyAdmin, LiVES	7002163000000000000163^[51]
Tigris.org	?^{[n 9]}	7002684000000000000684	Subversion,^{[n 10]} TortoiseSVN, RapidSVN	700426077000000000026,077^[52]
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

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

Notes

^ per account not per project, see Free hosting of e.g. documentation
^ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
^ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
^ ^a ^b outside
^ git and mercurial only
^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
^ Ubuntu
^ site is open source, see Gitorious' code on Gitorious
^ ^a ^b ^c Data not available.]
^ Bug tracking only, as a legacy service after the Subversion project migrated to the Apache Software Foundation.

References

^ BerliOS – The Open Source Mediator
^ Google Project Hosting – Google Code. Code.google.com (2006-07-20). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
^ Terms_of_Use - sitelegal. Sourceforge.net (2009-10-19). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
^ SourceForge.net: An Open Forge
^ Pricing/Plans — assembla.com
^ http://developer.berlios.de/
^ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
^ GitHub Pull Requests
^ GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
^ 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."
^ From Savannah's documentation, this feature is deprecated. See
^ Integrator Workflow: Pull Requests - codeBeamer Knowledge Base
^ Only in Beta 2.0
^ GitHub API docs
^ GitHub pages
^ Gist is a pastebin service operated by GitHub
^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides GIT Source Control Management, http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29964, retrieved 2008-12-10
^ News, BerliOS Project (2008-07-05), BerliOS provides Mercurial (HG) Source Control Management, http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29963, retrieved 2008-12-10
^ http://docs.codehaus.org/display/HAUSMATES/Services
^ http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CODEHAUS/Git
^ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (2008-10-24), Bazaar on Savannah, http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106417, retrieved 2008-12-10
^ "java.net Managing a Project: Source Code Repository". 2013-02-08. http://java.net/projects/help/pages/ManageProject#Source_Code_Repository. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^ "java.net Managing a Project: Source Code Repository". 2013-02-08. http://java.net/projects/help/pages/ManageProject#Source_Code_Repository. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^ "java.net Managing a Project: Source Code Repository". 2013-02-08. http://java.net/projects/help/pages/ManageProject#Source_Code_Repository. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^ Launchpad supports Git imports.
^ Accessing Git, Subversion and Mercurial from Bazaar.
^ ^a ^b Alioth: Welcome
^ Assembla: Home
^ "Assembla integrates with Basecamp and offers workspaces and portfolios for distributed agile development teams". 37signals. March 6, 2009. http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2009/03/assembla-integrates-with-basecamp-and-offers-workspaces-and-portfolios-for-distributed-agile-develop.html.
^ Assembla.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^ ^a ^b BerliOS Developer Portal
^ Berlios.de Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2012-8-4.
^ bitbucket blog
^ Repository List
^ Bitbucket.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^ CodeHaus Projects index
^ Codehaus.org Site Info. Alexa.com.
^ CodePlex – CodePlex – Project Directory
^ Codeplex.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^ GitHub Press Page. Retrieved on 2013-03-05.
^ Github.com Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-03-05.
^ Projects. Gitorious.org. Retrieved on 2012-11-25.
^ Gitorious.org Site Info. Alexa.com (2009-10-28). Retrieved on 2012-8-4.
^ ^a ^b Statistics - Savannah. gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
^ Nongnu.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2012-8-4.
^ Rosenberg, Jonathan (December 21, 2009). "The meaning of open". Official Google blog.
^ People and teams in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
^ Projects registered in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2013-01-02
^ Launchpad.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^ ^a ^b "What is SourceForge.net?" sourceforge.net.
^ Sourceforge.net Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^ Tigris.org Site Info. Alexa.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.

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