Canned Hosting Sites
These are all the credible, well-established canned hosting
sites that I know about as of early 2013. As noted in , each site imposes its own particular
restrictions in exchange for the convenience of hosting your open
source project's collaboration infrastructure: each one supports only
particular version control systems, bug trackers, etc. Again, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
has a good comparison of canned hosting sites.
This is not a complete list (the Wikipedia page above comes
closer). Instead, this appendix describes the canned hosting sites
that I see being used most often by open source projects. I include
both proprietary sites, i.e., sites for which the source code behind
the service is proprietary, and open source ones, i.e., those for
which full source code is available under a free license. In both
cases the services themselves are zero-cost to open source projects;
however, the open source sites enable others to replicate the service
on their own servers (though in practice it would take some effort to
do so).
In general, new open source projects should choose one of the sites
below, unless they have some special reason to use a different site
(e.g., Debian GNU/Linux projects might prefer alioth.debian.org, and Free
Software Foundation projects might choose savannah.gnu.org).
GitHub —
TBD (mention the interesting
visibility-not-oss-per-se requirement of github)
Google Code Hosting —
TBD
SourceForge —
TBD
Launchpad.net —
TBD
Gitorious —
TBD
fooo —
TBD
fooo —
TBD
TBD —
TBD