Where would you put your new open-source .NET project?

Question

I'm currently working on a .NET project that I will probably make open source.

There are lots of places to put it though, anyone have any experience for a friction-less effort? Codeplex? Google-code?

Note: I prefer Subversion for the projects source-control.

Answer 1

SourceForge, I would think. Isn't that the leader in opensource projects?

Answer 2

I would recommend Assembla.com.

Answer 3

I like Codeplex, and it also has Subversion support.

Expanded: Not really .NET but I just find that the interfaces of the website very easy to navigate and the issue tracker sections work really well (easy to add/easy to update). I also like the fact that you can have pictures and syntax highlighted code snippets on the front page of you project.

Answer 4

I use CodePlex because the Team Foundation integration in Visual Studio is very good, and you can use that with CodePlex.

Answer 5

If you like git as a version control system you could take a look at gitorious.org for hosting. I have a project with my code at gitorious but issue tracking and alike at google code

Answer 6

I've been using Assembla (untill they cut off free private projects), Google Code (open projects only) and recently I found Origo as an alternative to Assembla.

Answer 7

Google code is my favorite. It has similar powerful simplicity and reliability just like other products from the Gmail.

I would not recommend SourceForge to anyone. Reasons:

• Version control is slow
• If you wire up integration server to their version control, they may ban your IP just for pinging version control frequently
• UI is horrible and hard to navigate. You don't want to lose users just because of that.

CodePlex is better than SourceForge, but it still has more development friction that I would like to have.

Answer 8

Think I'm going to try out google code first :-)