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Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
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A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge software) 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.
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Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code.
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Specialized hosting facilities
The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly focused community or technology.
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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- Alioth (Debian) – In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org.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[64]
- Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
- CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015[65]
- CodePlex – shut down in December 2017.
- Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017[66]
- Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
- Gna! – 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.
- Phabricator – wound down operations 1 June 2021, all projects continued to be hosted with very limited support after 31 August 2021.[18]
- Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020.[67]
- Mozdev.org - shut down in July 2020.
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- Limited to 5 users on free plan (see Pricing – bitbucket.org)
- Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
- 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.
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