GForge
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GForge is a Free Software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge. After the dot bomb turmoil, and failing to achieve any profitablity, VA Linux (now VA Software) the company owning the Sourceforge Web site, decided to close the source code. Some years later, one of the developers Tim Perdue decided to release GForge based on the last GPLed version.
Features
- Project hosting
- Version control and CVS
- Bug-tracking
- Messaging
Installations
- Debian Alioth
- [gforge.org] is the self-hosting website of the project
- [LuaForge] a free service to the Lua community that can be used to fully host Lua projects and as a catalog of Lua projects.
- [RubyForge] hosts open source Ruby projects.
- [CakeForge] a free service for the CakePHP community to host their applications developed in the CakePHP framework.
- [PgFoundry] hosts PostgreSQL related projects.
History and the split
SourceForge software was originally open source. However, VA Software closed the source with the last open release being version 2.5. GForge is a rewrite of the last CVS version of the SourceForge software created by one of the SourceForge programmers; it is released under the GNU GPL.See also
- GNU Savannah
- SourceForge is a website which hosts open source projects, but runs the proprietary version of GForge
- Debian Alioth
External links
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