What's the best free open source alternative to MS Team Foundation Server?

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user342970 picture user342970 · May 17, 2010 · Viewed 26.2k times · Source

I have a team developing software in MS Visual Studio and now they want to start using MS Team Foundation Server, mainly for versioning and maybe patch and bug tracking. They don't have any experience with MS Team Foundation Server, but they are very enthusiastic with MS products. So whats the best free open source alternative solution? Git, SVN, CVS, Bugzilla, plugins, etc.

Answer

Joe Ratzer picture Joe Ratzer · May 17, 2010

There isn't a direct alternative, but I'd rather use the following:

Subversion (TortoiseSVN), CruiseControl, and something like Bugzilla.

Martin Fowler has recently done a good article on source control, and svn comes out ahead of TFS.

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