In an unexpected event,
**Google Code** will disappear, that simple. The project that tried to compete with giants like *GitHub* is clearly not sustainable and restrictions seem to be closing little by little. The first change that many users will see (and some already from what I understand) is that new projects can no longer be uploaded, and that the content that has been hosted until now will be available in read-only mode. Just now when we in Cuba were enjoying the opening of many of Google's services, they decided to close Google Code, but we still have some options. Let's see some of them GitHub
Maybe the system off
*smide* most famous and popular, but not the best in my opinion for its limited features. The main disadvantage of Github is that to have private repositories we have to pay prices, however, they are not so excessive for many. On the other hand, it offers us 1 GB of space for each project, as well as a Wiki and a website for each of them. Another advantage that GitHub offers us is the graphics to see how developers work in their repositories and forks of the projects, functionality as if it were a social network, and it is an excellent tool for collaborative work.Use the framework
*Ruby on Rails Bit bucket
Of all the sites for blacksmithing, this is my favorite and it's written in
*Python*. The features and improvements of Bitbucket are many, but it has two features that have solved my life:
- We can do
tryky over https (for those with closed git ports on their ISPs We can have public, private and shared repositories without paying a penny, either in
Mercurial. Sure, it also offers business plans and other tools for Atlassian (the company behind the project and others like HipChat) to create a very complete collaboration platform Gitorisk
Another excellent service recently bought by GitLab so it stops serving in May this year. However, it has the disadvantage that Gitorious.org reserves the right to disable or limit the account, if a project or repository exceeds 500 MB / month, or exceeds the average the bandwidth usage of other users or clients., projects or repositories until the owner of that account can reduce bandwidth consumption GitLab
GitLab is possibly the most attractive option for me after BitBucket. Its feature is to download the platform

*Open source* to install it on our own server. In GitLab we can create more than 100000 XNUMX projects, groups that depend on multiple repositories and because of its interface and appearance it is the most similar to GitHub. GitLab includes git - archive management, code reviews, issue tracker, wiki and much more. It naturally allows to do collaborative work, see the activity of other projects or people and integrates with many tools like Slack, HipChat, LDAP, JIRA, Jenkins, many types of
*hooks* (hooks) and a full API.While it has its community part, of course it also offers different plans for businesses SourceForge
There is not much to say about this service, it is one of the most veteran, although recently it has been involved in some controversial issues due to the way they use to make money called DevShare, a monetization program of software by introducing adware ( adware) into the installers of the host projects that choose to participate in the program Launchpad
Another one that needs no introduction in the GNU/Linux world, but unlike the rest is used more for hosting software projects. It is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd

It consists of several parts:
Koda: a source code website that uses the Bazaar version control system. Bugs: a bug tracking system for reporting bugs in various distributions and products. Blueprints: a tracking system for specifications and new features. translations: a website for translating applications into multiple languages. answers: a community help site. Sojus: a tool to carry a small part of the maintenance of the distributions. It covers the build system, package maintenance and file publishing. One of the main negatives that Launchpad has for many users is that it uses
*Bases* as version control GNU Savannah
One that is not so popular or cute is GNU Savannah, which according to Wikipedia is a project of the Free Software Foundation that offers CVS, GNU arch, SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, mailing lists, web hosting, file hosting and bug tracking services .Savannah runs Savane, which is based on the same software used by the SourceForge portal. The Savannah site is divided into two domains: savannah.gnu.org for official GNU project software and savannah.nongnu.org for all non-free software project.Unlike SourceForge, Savannah focuses on hosting completely free software projects, that is, without non-free components, such as Flash; and for this it is very strict in its publishing policy to ensure that only free software is hosted. When registering a project, its contributors must indicate which free software license it uses Conclusions

As you can see, we have more than one service that we can spend our projects playing with the monetary possibilities of each. The closing of Google Code has hit me like a bucket of cold water (as it did when they closed Google Reader ) and it is possible that other alternatives to this service will start to appear as a result. If you ask me, the best choice is between Bitbucket and Gitlab, especially the latter because we can easily buy a VPS and create our own version control server. The choice is yours 😉