Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

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.

Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code.

The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly focused community or technology.

• Alioth (Debian) – In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org.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
• Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
• CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015
• CodePlex – shut down in December 2017.
• Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017
• 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.
• Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020.
• Mozdev.org - shut down in July 2020.

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