6 Free SVN & Project Hosting Services
- Posted by admin on September 20th, 2007 filed in general, php, project management, python, rails, ruby, subversion, web technologies
Open Source seems to be exploding all over the place at the moment and with online services increasingly jumping on the free offerings its been fantastic for developers wanting to host, manage, flaunt and communicate their projects online. Here’s a rundown of 6 free SVN hosting and project management offerings I like the look of.
Unfuddle - Nice name and nice site. Very web 2.0 and slick with project tracking such as issue tickets, source control, time tracking, milestones, etc. The free package only comes with 15Mb and restrictive user allowances so not quite as generous as Assembla mentioned below but they have a shallower pricing curve so the first paid is $9/mo.
Assembla - Part of a large and feature-packed service full of project management features as well as basic 200Mb of SVN hosting. It even has a jobs board but the project hosting comes with wiki pages, blogs, etc. The free package has all of this so even if you don’t stump up the $49 p/m for the paid you’ll get one hell of a service.
OpenSVN - One of the first to release free SVN hosting of open source projects and starting to show its age with a very clunky interface and barebones features. So when I say “free SVN hosting” I really mean just that!
Bounty Source - Still going strong after I first mentioned it back in June Bounty Source offer your basic SVN along with a wiki and CMS for managing your projects online presence as well as a task tracker. Bounty Source have a unique feature though that enables a developer to be paid for the work they carry out on user feature requests. Something I really like the look of - all I need now is an open source project people are going to pay me to finish!
SourceForge - Like an old grandfather clock this has been around years and although very reliable its showing its age. They tried to spruce it up with some Web2.0 gradients and curves but you can’t scrub out the moldy smell from that interface and features-set.
Google Project Hosting - They seem to have taken a lot of the old school methods of project hosting from SourceForge. Unfortunately as mentioned earlier they’re looking old and althoguh Google looks much cleaner its features still lack the richness that the smaller providers have who’ve gone all out on innovation while Google remains formulaic.
Related
April 7th, 2008 at 1:10 am
[...] This post has since been superseded but this one which lists 6 free SVN hosting services. [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Thank you very much for this great listing. It helps a lot.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Hi, thank you for the great listing, which is most useful as I’m now scouting for a free SVN host.
By the way, I understand some SVN hosts while free, require our codes to be made open to the public. Does this apply to any of the hosts that you have listed above?
Thanks once again!