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Integration Watch: Open-source hosts with the most

By Andrew Binstock

September 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 3)
Cool! You have a hot idea for an open-source project. You’re ready to start designing right away and, you hope, coding immediately afterwards. You know others are tuned into your vision, and you hope you can get some of them to help you code. Now then, where are you going to host that project? There are more choices than ever before, but choosing well now will help you later—especially if your project becomes popular.

The primary hosting options can be segregated into two groups: those with lots of requirements, and those with few. Let’s look at these, starting with ones that have stringent requirements.

At the top of the list is the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) at apache.org. It hosts only a few projects, but ones that matter and that frequently have a large following. In my recent interview with ASF president Justin Erenkrantz, he stated, “For a project to apply, it generally requires three active, regular contributors.” Even if it qualifies on that score, it must still go through an incubation and review phase before it becomes a fully accepted project. In exchange, the ASF provides hosting, a legal framework, considerable exposure and undeniable cachet.

Another elite host is Codehaus, at codehaus.org. Here, too, projects must apply and be reviewed based on various criteria, including code quality. It’s not a host of first resort, as it expects projects to have an existing codebase. Many projects it hosts are tools that are of interest to developers: Groovy, Grails, JRuby, Drools, PicoContainer and more. In exchange, Codehaus provides free access to tools from Atlassian and IntelliJ, among others. And it gives your project prestige. My only complaint is the numerous advertisements on the project pages.

The final member of the picky troika is Tigris at tigris.org, which is hosted by CollabNet, the same folks who bring the world Subversion. ArgoUML is its other most well-known project. My own OSS project, Platypus, has been hosted there for several years. Tigris looks for projects for “tools for collaborative software development.”

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09/03/2009 07:28:53 PM EST

Good comparison of open source hosting sites and their pros and cons. On a related note, I tried to access my kenai.com account (4:20pm PST) Sep 3. But their site appears to be down. Any one else experiencing this?

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09/11/2009 04:11:15 AM EST

Thanks for your kind words. Kenai.com is up. Must have been a momentary glitch. Correction to original article: Tigris.org informs me that they began offering a wiki page. So, when I wrote only Kenai and Google Code offer a wiki page, Tigris should be added to the list.

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