# GForge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/GForge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/GForge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GForge > Source revision: 1353912789 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1999 SourceForge software & derivatives This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "GForge" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) GForge Other names GForge Next GForgeNext GForge AS GForge Advanced Server Developer GForge Group Release June 21, 2006; 20 years ago (2006-06-21) Stable release 22.2 / January 5, 2023; 3 years ago (2023-01-05)[1] Type Collaborative development environment License Proprietary Website https://gforge.com **GForge** is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind [SourceForge](/source/SourceForge), a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the [GPL](/source/GNU_General_Public_License).[2][3] Open source versions of the GForge code were released from 2002 to 2009, at which point the company behind GForge focused on their proprietary service offering which provides project hosting, [version control](/source/Version_control) (CVS, Subversion, Git), code reviews, ticketing (issues, support), release management, continuous integration and messaging. The [FusionForge](/source/FusionForge) project emerged in 2009 to pull together open-source development efforts from the variety of software forks which had sprung up.[4] GForge Community Edition Developer GForge Group Final release 5.7 / April 23, 2010; 16 years ago (2010-04-23) Written in PHP Operating system Linux, Unix Type Collaborative development environment License GNU GPL FusionForge Screenshot Screenshot of project landing page in 2017 Stable release 6.1 / October 5, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-10-05) Written in PHP Operating system Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X, etc. Available in Multilingual (26 languages including french, english, german, spanish, italian, etc )[5] Type Collaborative Development Environment License GNU GPL2+ Website fusionforge.org/projects/fusionforge Repository scm.fusionforge.org/anonscm/gitweb/?p=fusionforge%2Ffusionforge.git ## History In 1999, [VA Linux](/source/VA_Linux) hired four developers, including Tim Perdue (1974-2011), to develop the [SourceForge.net](/source/SourceForge.net) service to encourage [open-source development](/source/Open-source_software_development) and support the Open Source developer community. SourceForge.net services were offered free of charge to any Open Source project team. Following the SourceForge launch on November 17, 1999, the [free software community](/source/Free_software_community) rapidly took advantage of SourceForge.net, and traffic and users grew very quickly.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] As another competitive web service, "Server 51", was being readied for launch, VA Linux released the source code for the sourceforge.net web site on January 14, 2000, as a marketing ploy to show that SourceForge was 'more open source'.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Many companies began installing and using it themselves and contacting VA Linux for professional services to set up and use the software. However, their pricing was so unrealistic, they had few customers. By 2001, the company's Linux hardware business had collapsed in the [dotcom bust](/source/Dot-com_bubble). The company was renamed to VA Software and called the closed codebase [SourceForge Enterprise Edition](/source/SourceForge_Enterprise_Edition) to try to force some of the large companies to purchase licenses. This prompted objections from open source community members. VA Software continued to say that a new source code release would be made at some point, but it never was.[2] Some time later, 2002, Tim Perdue left VA and started GForge LLC which released both an open source and commercial version of GForge. Both codebases were forked from the last publicly released version, 2.6, and merged the debian-sf fork, previously maintained by Roland Mas and Christian Bayle, into the project. In February 2009 there was a break-up of the original open source (GPL) version of GForge with some of the developers of GForge releasing the continued development of the old open source code under the new name of [FusionForge](/source/FusionForge) while Perdue and his new company focused on a commercial offering (GForge Advanced Server and later GForgeNext). ## GForge and GForge Advanced Server Tim Perdue and his company begin focusing on a commercial version of GForge originally called GForge Advanced Server (also called GForge AS). It saw first public release on June 21, 2006. While it was offered commercially it could be used freely (with some restrictions on project limits and number of users.). GForge AS was written in [PHP](/source/PHP) and continued to use [PostgreSQL](/source/PostgreSQL). Plug-ins for [Eclipse](/source/Eclipse_(computing)) IDE as well as [Microsoft Visual Studio](/source/Microsoft_Visual_Studio) (only for customers and with no trial available) and other related tools were added to increase developer functionality. [Workflow](/source/Workflow) [process management](/source/Process_management_(computing)) to handle making use of the full software life cycle from inception, bug tracking to new release enhancement citation. In 2011 GForge came under new ownership under GForge Group, Inc and while work on the GForge AS 6.x series continued the company began working on a partial rewrite dubbed GForgeNext. GForgeNext, later rebranded back to GForge, was released on October 1, 2018, which included a revamped user interface, REST API, support for Agile/Scrum disciplines and the GForge Group, Inc expanded to support SaaS. While not open source, the source is available* and the downloadable version can be used for free for up to five users. * the source code that does the license enforcement is encrypted. ## FusionForge In 2007, [Bull](/source/Groupe_Bull) announced the first public release of Novaforge which is based on the GForge open source branch. In February 2009 some of the developers of GForge continued development of the old open source code under the new name of FusionForge after GForge Group focused on GForge Advanced Server. One objective is to merge GForge forks into a single project, hence the prefix Fusion. In 2011, FusionForge is selected as part of the Coclico project. It aims to fusion three existing trees of forked forges: FusionForge, Codendi & Novaforge. End 2013, main Savane maintainer Sylvain Beucler joins FusionForge as INRIA contractor for 2 years. Main contributors to FusionForge include individual contributors such as Roland Mas, small companies such as TrivialDev. In 2017, FusionForge software is the first forge software to contribute to the [Software Heritage](/source/Software_Heritage) initiative, providing a connector to retrieve any information from old FusionForge installations. ## See also - [Free and open-source software portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_and_open-source_software) - [Alioth](/source/Alioth_(Debian)) - [Computer-aided software engineering](/source/Computer-aided_software_engineering) (CASE) - [Computer-supported collaboration](/source/Computer-supported_collaboration) - [GitLab](/source/GitLab) - [GitHub](/source/GitHub) - [GNU Savannah](/source/GNU_Savannah) - [Toolkits for User Innovation](/source/Toolkits_for_User_Innovation) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["GForge 22.2 Released!"](https://gforge.com/blog/article/gforge-22-2-released.html). January 5, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-09. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_2-1) ["GForge: possible renaissance for open-source SourceForge \[LWN.net\]"](https://lwn.net/Articles/17369/). *lwn.net*. Retrieved July 13, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Opinion: GitHub vs GitLab | Linux Journal"](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab). *www.linuxjournal.com*. Retrieved July 13, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The history of FusionForge and GForge"](https://blog.bitergia.com/2012/11/16/the-history-of-fusionforge-and-gforge/). *The Software Development Analytics Blog*. November 16, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Translations files available"](http://translationproject.org/domain/fusionforge.html). ## External links - [Official website](https://gforge.com/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [GForge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GForge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GForge?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.