GForge is a software for collaborative development for the software community. It provides a full configured development system with versioning, a project web site and tools for communication between members of a development team. The tools provided by GForge allows team members to communicate and organize their work; this allows the creation of a knowledgebase.
A complete configurated GForge system will give you the following features:
A Web site for every project
Versioning via CVS
Shell access to the server for the developers
A web site for project coordination and comunication between team members:
Discussion Forums - For discussions between team members
Bug tracking - Allow registration and administration of bugs
Support requests, patch submissions, and enhancement requests
Comunication between project members using mailing lists
Sharing of documentation
Handling of todo lists, tasks, etc
File uploads/releases
Posting of news - Every project can have its own news items.
Code Snippets - Provides of a basic knowledgebase that can contain code fragments, HOWTOs, etc.
The tasks and the tracker items (to track bugs, patches, support requests, enhancement requests) can be classified using status, priority, category.
The system provides also a classification system of the projects, a user profile, and a user rating system.