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There are tons of source code hosting sites out there but which one is right for you?

News and Follow-Ups

• 0:38 – Spreeder is like ZapReader – via Robert Lund

Webapps

• 4:42 – Muttr – Vent about things
• 8:00 – F My Life – Sad/Funny stories about people’s misfortune.

Topics

• 10:38 – SCM Host Comparison
  • Github – http://github.com
    • Supports git only
    • Community messaging
    • One of the most popular distributed source control community websites
    • Forking and pull requests from the site
    • Gravatar style icons pulled by users email address
    • A revision controlled “pastebin” like system called gists
    • Bare bones issue submission
    • Big names include
      • Ruby on Rails
      • Scriptaculous
      • Lots of ruby projects
    • They have a free account for public but not a private repo
  • Kenai – http://kenai.com/projects/help/pages/KenaiOverview
    • Netbeans integration
    • Support for git, mercurial, and svn
    • Has a build system for code that is compiled
    • Support for Google Analytics
    • Couldn’t find the option to have private projects
    • Mailing list support
    • Big names include
      • JRuby
      • Sun, OpenSolaris
      • Cheqlist
  • bitbucket – http://bitbucket.org/
    • A very similar design and methodology to github
    • Similar plans and pricing to github
    • Mercurial only hosting
    • Unlimited public repos, 150mb 1 private repo for free
    • Gravatar icons based on email address
    • Message between different users
    • OpenID support, github does not.
    • Big names include
      • Django
      • MailChimp
      • Linden Lab
  • codebasehq – http://codebasehq.com
    • 20mb free
    • Supports Git, Mercurial, and SVN
    • Private repos
    • Project manager oriented
    • Microblogging integration
    • Big names include
      • Uservoice
  • Source Forge
    • The largest community of hosted projects
    • Supports cvs, svn, bzr, git, and mercurial
    • Open source, public only
    • Mailing list support
    • Forums
    • Supports OpenId
    • Big names include
      • phpmyadmin
      • filezilla
      • audacity
      • jedit
  • Google Code
    • Supports svn and mercurial.  Not Git
    • No private repos
    • Nice front project page with featured downloads
    • Clunky issue tracker
    • 1gb of source space and 2 gb of download space
    • Project members and permissions
    • Google Analytics integration
    • Big names incude
      • Android
      • Google Wave
      • Chrome
    • Home grown
    • Gitorious – http://gitorious.org/