TeamForge (formerly SourceForge Enterprise Edition or SFEE) is a proprietary collaborative

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supporting

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and a

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...

management system.

Background

TeamForge provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...

applications (such as

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and

Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...

). Its predecessor,

SourceForge SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirrorin ...

, started as

, but a version of it (based on the v2.5 prototype code) was eventually relicensed under a

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as SourceForge Enterprise Edition, which was re-written in

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and marketed for

offshore outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

software development. The original codebase of SourceForge (code-named "Alexandria") was

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ed by the

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; then, Savannah was also modified at CERN and released as Savane. SourceForge was also later forked as

GForge GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GPL. Open source versions of the GForge code were released from 20 ...

by one of the SourceForge programmers, and then GForge was itself forked as

FusionForge GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GNU General Public License, GPL. Open source versions of the GForg ...

by three GForge developers. Originally sold by

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, SourceForge Enterprise Edition was acquired by

CollabNet CollabNet VersionOne is a software firm headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States. CollabNet VersionOne products and services belong to the industry categories of value stream management, devops, agile management, application lifecycl ...

on April 24, 2007. CollabNet subsequently integrated SourceForge Enterprise Edition with its own CollabNet Enterprise Edition and product, taking architectural and product elements from both systems, and re-launched the enhanced product as TeamForge in 2008. Since 2007, TeamForge has continued to undergo development, adding in a series of

tools.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:TeamForge Bug and issue tracking software Geeknet Project hosting websites Project management software Collaborative software

Background

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