A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities. General information Features Version control systems Popularity Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code. Specialized hosting facilities The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly focused community or technology. Former hosting facilities Alioth (Debian) – In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018. BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014 Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015. CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015 CodePlex – shut down in December 2017. Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017 Gitorious – shut down in June 2015. Gna! – shut down in 2017. Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/. java.net – Java.net and kenai.com hosting closed April 2017. Phabricator – wound down operations 1 June 2021, all projects continued to be hosted with very limited support after 31 August 2021. Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020. See also Comparison of version-control software Distributed version control Forge (software) List of free software project directories List of version-control software Source code escrow for closed-source software Version control (source-code-management systems) Notes References External links Online services comparisons Free software lists and comparisons