SourceForge
The SourceForge logo
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Screenshot of SourceForge main page in 2014
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Type of site
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Collaborative revision control, software development management system |
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| Owner | Geeknet, Inc. (1999-2012) DHI Group, Inc. (2012-2016) BIZX, LLC |
| Created by | VA Software |
| Key people | Logan Abbott (President) |
| Website |
sourceforge |
| Alexa rank |
 287 (February 2017)[update]
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| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
| Launched | November 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
SourceForge is a Web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects. It provides a source code repository, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a 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 was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open source projects. Since 2012 the website runs on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers of free / open-source software, competing with other providers such as GitHub, Bitbucket, RubyForge, Tigris.org, BountySource, Launchpad, BerliOS, JavaForge, GNU Savannah, and GitLab.
As of March 2014,[update] the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 430,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users. The domain sourceforge.net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete.com survey.
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