About Gitorious

Gitorious aims to provide a great way of doing distributed opensource code collaboration

The idea

Traditional code- and project forges offer many great things and has without a question helped developers of open source software. However, there's always the issue of long-term maintainability; as humans we always get distracted, busy and or just plain tired of working with things in the long run.

Distributed version control provides a way around this by making everyones copy a full repository, so if people like someone elses stuff better, or that someone else is actively maintaining the project they can just pull from that person instead of the "official" repository. And if the project maintainer decides to, he can pull those changes into his mainline branch. That's what makes open source great.

Gitorious provides a way of keeping track of these clones easily by:

• Seeing what they're doing
• Knowing where they can be found
• Allowing anyone to contribute without being blessed with "commit bits"
• Making it easier for maintainers to accept contributions

Gitorious is still under development and there's many many more things I'd like to do with it. If you have ideas for improvements or technical issues please do stop by the discussion group.

Regards,
Johan Sørensen
Gitorious.org maintainer

Contact Info

If you experience any technical issues feel free to send an email, there's also the discussion group for more general Gitorious discussions around Gitorious. There's also the #gitorious IRC channel on FreeNode.