About Gitorious
Gitorious is a great way of collaborating on distributed open source projects
Gitorious provides open source infrastructure for hosting open source projects
that use Git. The central entity in Gitorious is the project, which contains
one or more top-level repositories and any repositories managed by the project's
contributors.
This allows you, as a project administrator, to keep an eye on what people
are working on in their individual clones of your repositories. It also lets
you merge or provide feedback on their contributions.
Likewise, as a project contributor, you get a place to host your contributions
and provide feedback back into the projects ecosystem and easily collaborate
with others on the same project. You get your own personal clone of the project
on the site that you can work freely in and a way to package up your changes
and notify the other project members about your changes.
Features
- Project hosting
- Hosting of official project repositories
- Hosting of project repository clones
- Project wikis
- Public merge requests and code review
- Project activity timeline
- Developer profiles and activity timelines
- Built in notification systems
- Free for opensource projects
- Commercial support and customizations available
History
Gitorious was started by Johan Sørensen in the end of 2007 as a way to easily host Git repositories for himself. The idea turned out to be so useful that Gitorious began to offer hosting for other projects as well, for free, eventually opening up for anyone to create an account.
In March 2009 Gitorious.org was folded into Shortcut AS, a software company co-founded by Johan. The intention was to improve Gitorious beyond what was feasible for a single developer to manage. Shortcut's fully owned subsidiary Gitorious AS now officially supports and develops Gitorious in cooperation with contributors outside the company, while still being 100% free software. under the GNU Affero General Public License.
Professional Gitorious services
Gitorious AS, the company responsible for developing Gitorious and maintaining gitorious.org, offers professional services related to Gitorious, including:
- Installation, maintenance and support for custom Gitorious installations.
- Branded subdomains on gitorious.org
- Consulting services: development of custom features, integration, branding and training
For more information about professional Gitorious services, please visit the gitorious.com web site.
License
The Gitorious codebase is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License unless noted otherwise.
The Gitorious name is a registered trademark of Gitorious AS.
The Gitorious logo is owned by Gitorious AS and
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Norway License.
The icons used are famfamfam silk, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
