SourceForge
SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.
SourceForge logo since 2018 | |
Type of site | Free hosting for open-source software project management |
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| Owner | Slashdot Media (2019–present) BIZX, LLC (2016–2019) DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016) Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012) |
| Created by | VA Software |
| Key people | Logan Abbott (President) |
| URL | sourceforge |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
| Launched | November 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects. Since 2012, the website has run on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free hosting and free access to tools for developers of free and open-source software.
As of September 2020, the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users.