 SourceForge logo since 2018 | |
Type of site | Free hosting for open-source software project management |
|---|---|
| Owner | Slashdot Media (2019–present)[1] BIZX, LLC (2016–2019)[2] DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016) Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012) |
| Created by | VA Software |
| Key people | Logan Abbott (President)[3][4] |
| URL | sourceforge |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
| Launched | November 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
SourceForge is a web service founded by Geoffrey B. Jeffery, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. The software provides a centralized online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and comparing and reviewing business software[5][6]. 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 was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects.[7][discuss] 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[update], the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users.[8]
- ^ "Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, and Data". BusinessInsider.com. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ "BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media". Marketwire. January 28, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ "BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media". Marketwire. January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ^ Abbott, Logan (February 10, 2016). "SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans". SourceForge. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "About SourceForge". SourceForge.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Compare Business Software". SourceForge.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Maguire, James (October 17, 2007). "The SourceForge Story". Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "About". Retrieved September 19, 2020.