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Gitorious URL gitorious.org Type of site collaborative revision control Registration OpenID Available language(s) English Launched January 2008 Current status online

Gitorious Developer(s) Shortcut AS Written in Ruby Operating system Cross-platform Available in English Type Project management software License GNU Affero General Public License Website http://gitorious.org/

Gitorious is the name of a web based project host for collaborative open source projects using the Git distributed revision control system,^[1] as well as the open source server software that it is developed and hosted on.^[2] According to the Git User's Survey in 2009, Gitorious is the second most popular web interface for Git, with 10% of respondents indicating they use it, behind the 62% using GitHub.^[3]

Features

In addition to source code hosting, Gitorious provides projects with wikis, a web interface for merge requests and code reviews, and activity timelines for projects and developers.^[4]

Used by

Some notable projects that use Gitorious include:

• Qt and related software by Qt Software, such as Qt Jambi, Qt Kinetic, Qt Creator, and PySide is developed on the main site.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}
• Amarok has completed its migration to Gitorious, the first component of the KDE project to do so.^[11][12][13] Phonon^[14] and the rest of the KDE project plan to migrate soon afterwards.^[15][16][17]
• openSUSE, a major Linux distribution.^[18][19]
• Maemo ^[20][21][22]
• MeeGo^[23]
• Sugar and related software by Sugar Labs is developed on a Gitorious deployment run by Open Source Lab.^{[24][25][26][27][28]}
• Canola and various other software is developed on a Gitorious deployment run by OpenBOSSA.^[29][30]
• Laconica, a microblogging platform^[31][32]

See also

• GitHub
• Comparison of open source software hosting facilities

References

External links

• Gitorious - Gitorious homepage
• git-scm.com tools - Gitorious on git-scm.com