Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities.
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 |
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Assembla | Assembla, Inc | 2005 | No | Unknown | Unknown | No | Yes | |
Azure DevOps Services | Microsoft | 2012[1] | No | No | Azure DevOps Services | No | Yes | Most features are free for open source projects or teams of 5 members or less[2] |
Bitbucket | Atlassian | 2008 | No | No | Atlassian BitBucket Server, JIRA and Confluence | No | Yes | Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[3] |
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[4] applied. |
CloudForge | CollabNet | 2012 | No | Unknown | Unknown | No | Yes | |
Gitea | Gitea organization (open source community)[5] | 2016 | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Gitea is an open-source software tool funded on that is designed for self-hosting, but also provides a free first-party instance. |
GForge | The GForge Group,Inc.[6] | 2006 | Partial | Yes | Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version - free up to 5 users. | No | Yes | GForge is free for open source projects. |
GitHub | Microsoft/GitHub, Inc | 2008-04 | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Denies service to Crimea, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[7] |
GitLab | GitLab Inc. | 2011-09[8] | Partial[9] | Yes[10] | GitLab FOSS — free software GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) — proprietary |
No | Yes | Denies service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[11] |
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[12] |
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.[13][14] |
OSDN | OSDN K.K. | 2002–04 | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | No | No | For open-source projects only.[15] |
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 | End of life[16] |
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[17][18] | Yes | Apache Allura | No | No | For open-source projects only.[19] Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[20] |
ProgramOnChain | Bitcoin Association, Raja Zuberi | 2020 | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Yes | Provides an option of uploading repository data to the BSV blockchain. |
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 repository | Private repository | Announce | Build system | Team | Release binaries | Self-hosting |
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Assembla | Yes[21] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[22] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
Azure DevOps Services | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Commercially (Azure DevOps Server) |
Bitbucket | Yes[23] | Yes[a] | Yes[24] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[b] | No | Yes[25] | Yes | No[26] | 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 |
GForge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Gitea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[27] | Yes | Unknown | Yes |
GitHub | Yes[28] | Yes[29][e] | Yes[30] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[31] | Yes | Yes | Commercially (GitHub Enterprise) |
GitLab | Yes[32] | Yes | Yes[33] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[34] | Yes | Yes[35] | Yes[f] |
GNU Savannah | Yes[36] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No[37] | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown | Yes |
Helix TeamHub | Yes[38] | 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 |
ProgramOnChain | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Name | Code review | Bug tracking | Web hosting | Wiki | Translation system | Shell server | Mailing list | Forum | Personal repository | Private repository | 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 Services | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Bitbucket | No | Yes | Until Feb 2020[c] | 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 |
GForge | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Gitea | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
GitHub | No | Yes | No | Partial[39] | No | No | No | No | No |
GitLab | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
GNU Savannah | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[40] | No | Yes | No | No |
java.net | No | Yes[41] | Yes[41] | Yes[41] | No | No | No | No | No |
Kallithea | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Launchpad | Import only | Yes[14][42] | Import only[43] | 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[44] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped[45] | No | No | Unknown | No[46] |
ProgramOnChain | No | Yes | No | Import only | No | No | No | Unknown | No |
Name | CVS | Git | Hg | SVN | BZR | TFVC | Arch | Perforce | Fossil |
Popularity[]
Name | Users | Projects |
---|---|---|
Assembla | Unknown | 526,581+[47] |
Bitbucket | 5,000,000[48] | Unknown |
Buddy | Unknown | Unknown |
CloudForge | Unknown | Unknown |
Gitea | Unknown | Unknown |
GitHub | 65,000,000[49] | 200,000,000[49] |
GitLab | 31,190,000[50] | 546,000[51][j] |
GNU Savannah | 93,346[52] | 3,848[52] |
Launchpad | 3,965,288[53] | 40,881[54] |
OSDN | 54,826[55] | 6,294[55] |
Ourproject.org | 6,353[56] | 1,846[56] |
OW2 Consortium | Unknown | Unknown |
SEUL | Unknown | Unknown |
SourceForge | 3,700,000[57] | 500,000[57] |
ProgramOnChain | Unknown | Unknown |
Name | Users | Projects |
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 Linux 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[]
- 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.
- BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014[58]
- Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
- CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015[59]
- CodePlex CodePlex shut down in December 2017.
- Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017 [60]
- Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
- Gna! Gna.org shut down in 2017.
- Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/ .
- java.net Java.net and kenai.com hosting closed April 2017.
- Tigris.org - shut down in July 2020.[61]
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.
- ^ Limited to 5 users on free plan (see Pricing - bitbucket.org)
- ^ Jump up to: a b 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 FOSS 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.
- ^ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.
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- ^ https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/
- ^ SourceForge docs for bazaar, Bazaar is no longer available for new projects, they only offer limited support for Bazaar for projects previously using it on the Classic SourceForge system (2013-07-01).
- ^ Feature Request: Fossil Repositories
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564k January 2016
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "Welcome". ourproject.org. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "About".
- ^ "BerliOS Developer: New berliOS portal launched". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
- ^ "Codehaus: The once great house of code has fallen". Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ "Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement – FedoraProject". fedoraproject.org.
- ^ "Tigris.org: Shut down on 1-July-2020". Archived from the original on 1 July 2020.
External links[]
- Online services comparisons
- Open-source software hosting facilities
- Free software lists and comparisons