Picking open source software hosting facilities

Question

I'm working on a project that I would like to make Open Source in the long run, and in the short run I'd like to make sure I have copies of all code and related files some place other than my laptop. So it seems like I should select an open source hosting service, but there are so many to choose from it's hard to know where to start.

The Wikipedia article on the topic provides some good comparisons, but I'm still not sure which features I care about.

What advice can you offer about how to select hosting services for a open source project that's just getting off the ground?

Answer 1

First you have to decide on what type of source control you want to use. It pretty much becomes a choice between distributed source control Git or centralized source control (like SVN) (SO Comparison, and here)

I'd say pick one at, get started...

If you've never used open source before, SVN is probably easier to get started with, with Tortoise around and all.