LuaForge is an open source code repository and collaborative software development management system

Forge (software)

A software forge is a collaboration platform allowing collaborative software development over the Internet. A forge platform aggregates a set of applications with integrated Web interfaces, and generally hosts multiple independent projects...

 for programmers and projects related to the Lua programming language.

, there are more than five hundred projects in a software catalog of LuaForge.

LuaForge is built with GForge

GForge

GForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge, called Savane...

, a GNU GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

 fork

Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a legal copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software...

 of SourceForge software.

Governance

LuaForge has been sponsored by:

• Fábrica Digital, developer of Publique! CMS
  Content management system
  A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
  
   (50KLOC
  Source lines of code
  Source lines of code is a software metric used to measure the size of a software program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program's source code...
  
   of Lua and 5KLOC of C)
• Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), provides hosting
  Web hosting service
  A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet...
  
   for LuaForge
• Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
  Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
  The Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos is an organization of the Brazilian federal government under the Ministry of Science of Technology, devoted to funding of science and technology in the country....
  
   (FINEP), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia
• Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
  The Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico is an organization of the Brazilian federal government under the Ministry of Science and Technology, dedicated to the promotion of scientific and technological research and to the formation of human resources for research in the...
  
   (CNPq)
• TecWeb at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

, there is no any specific foundation responsible for LuaForge.

On 19 March 2010, LuaForge team stated that with a severe lack of available resources it is impossible to maintain the site further in its current state.

See also

• Lua on SourceForge
  SourceForge.net
  SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. The website runs a version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition, forked from the last open-source version available...
  
  
• Lua on Google Code
  Google Code
  Google Code is Google's site for developer tools, APIs and technical resources. The site contains documentation on using Google developer tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products....
  
  
• Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
• List of free software project directories

External links

• LuaForge website
• Lua.org — official site of the Lua language