Brief comparison with other forges

Launchpad.net

• Services (API): Web services API

• Technical features: Bugzilla Launchpad Plugin , Bug tracking , Code hosting using Bazaar, Code reviews , Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations , Mailing lists ,Answer tracking and FAQs ,Specification tracking

• Innovative aspects: Google Code , Github

• Major hosted projects : Drizzle,GNOME Do, Inkscape,MySQL , OpenERP,Pinta,Upstart,Zope 3

Sourceforge

• Services (API): API
• Technical features: Project wikis, metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database, and unique sub-domain URLs for each project.
• Innovative aspects : SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers of free / open source software Google Code,
• Major hosted projects : VLC media player,eMule, Azureus/Vuze, Ares Galaxy, 7-Zip, Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts, FileZilla, PortableApps.com: Portable , Software/USB, Notepad++ Plugin Manager, MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows

Github

• Services (API): API and easy Git hooks configuration.
• Technical features : Collaboration , Git powered wikis , Integrated issue tracking , Code review, Continuous Integration with Travis CI.
• Innovative aspects : Gist , Shop , Top languages, Social Coding, Visibility, Easy Forking, Mirrors, GitHub pages.
• Major hosted projects: bootstrap , node , jquery , html5-boilerplate,rails , impress.js , backbone, * SpringSource, Apache Software Foundation.

Google Code

• Services (API): Google Data APIs , Ajax APIs , Ads APIs , App Engine
• Technical features: API'S , Usage of Subversion , Git , Mercurial
• Innovative aspects: Access to all apis only with one account
• Major hosted projects: Using Flossmole to obtain data

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