* Halbersma, Christopher <CHalbersma.12@westminster-mo.edu> wrote:

Souceforge always seemed pretty good at hosting open souce projects. Of course I could be wrong there.

It used to be The Place for hosting open projects, years ago... but its service and policies have been slowly declining while better alternatives popped up. The other services I've seen mentioned so far are FreeHG, BitBucket, Savannah, and Launchpad. FreeHG hosts Mercurial branches. It sounds like it's not reliable though, and doesn't really do anything else. BitBucket provides Mercurial hosting, bug tracking, and a wiki. I haven't found more than a summary about it. Savannah was born from an old open-source version of SourceForge. It is similar but has better code hosting options (including hg and git). It currently hosts 3022 projects, 60739 users, and 25504 bugs. Launchpad is an original project management service from Canonical, and offers relatively unique options (see the tour for details). It currently hosts 10141 projects, 2560014 users, 4310 teams, 323833 bugs, 24561 branches, 1117574 translations, 59871 answers, and 14499 blueprints. This is an exciting time for community software development... the past couple years have been a very creative time full of new ideas about how to collaborate, and it looks like things are only accelerating from here. Although it can be hard to decide which emerging systems to use, I'm happy to have no lack of options. :) -- Scott