Comments on: Best Free Software project hosting?

By: Free Software Project Hosting | The Changelog

Free Software Project Hosting | The Changelog — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:03:20 +0000

[...] asked for suggestions a few days ago. I got several good ones, and investigated them. You can find my original criteria [...]

By: Dmitrijs

Dmitrijs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:10:42 +0000

http://developer.berlios.de/

It has tracker and git, hg, svg, bzr support.

And’t it’s not the names heard up here ;-)

By: Elliot Murphy

Elliot Murphy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:03:35 +0000

Launchpad has continuous git imports, which is pretty neat. I’m working on a couple of projects which are hosted in git but we want to use launchpad for bug reports and code reviews, and so we just import git trunk into launchpad.

Launchpad also has an API that will allow you to script uploading tarballs, making releases, manipulating bugs, code reviews, etc. I use an cron tool (http://launchpad.net/tarmac) to automatically notice, pull/test/merge approved branches into trunk.

By: mirabilos

mirabilos — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:29:16 +0000

There’s also evolvis.org which is pretty much the same as either
Savannah or Alioth since it uses the same software.

Closing tickets from changesets sounds interesting though (I like
that from the Debian BTS). It might become implemented.

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:13:20 +0000

http://fedorahosted.org provides a trac instance (wiki +tracker) and support for most common SCM’s and it is not Fedora specific.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:29:04 +0000

I’ll also say I prefer Free Software hosts, but it’s not as big a requirement as some of the other things. I’ll always have my local Git repo copy of course.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:17:22 +0000

The big problem with Launchpad, for me, is that they only support bzr. I use git, and do not want to use bzr for my projects. I don’t mind keeping git repos on git.complete.org, but presumably I would then lose a good deal of benefit from integration.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:32:27 +0000

Google does extend beyond the limit of 25 on request. How that works in practice, I don’t know.

By: Onkar

Onkar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:47:51 +0000

AFAIK, Google code allows fixing of bugs by mentioning them in changelog. I think I have seen this in reviewboard project.

And of course there is launchpad as well.

By: James Vega

James Vega — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:49:19 +0000

Bruce: I was going to mention gitorious in my reply but it seems to be targeted simply at hosting repositories instead of full project management. Also, John seems willing to use non-Free projects as evidenced by considering Google Code and Sourceforge.

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:51:14 +0000

Launchpad is completely open source now; it uses bzr for DVCS, and I know you can close Ubuntu bugs from package changelogs, but I’m not sure about projects in general.

By: Bruce Cowan

Bruce Cowan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:30:14 +0000

Gitorious. Unlike GitHub, it’s free (in both senses of the word).

By: James Vega

James Vega — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:28:44 +0000

github.com is actually pretty good if you’re fine with moving everything to git. I’m not sure how their release system works, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities may help, too.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:20:34 +0000

A big +1 here for GitHub.

By: ssam

ssam — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:17:49 +0000

you missed out launchpad. only has bzr for source control, but has top notch bug tracker.