SourceForge
 SourceForge logo since 2018 | |
Website type | Software discovery platform for free hosting for open-source software project management and B2B software review & comparison directory |
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| Owners | Slashdot Media (2019–present) BIZX, LLC (2016–2019) DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016) Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012) |
| Creator | VA Software |
| Key people | Logan Abbott (President) |
| Website | sourceforge |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
| Launched | November 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
url. Replace with website.type. Replace with website_type.launch_date. Replace with launched.author. Replace with creator.SourceForge is a web service that provides a centralized software discovery platform, including an online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and a directory for comparing and reviewing B2B software that lists over 104,500 business software titles. 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 founded by Tony Guntharp, Uriah Welcome, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. It was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects. 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, the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users.