Is there a free private Bazaar online source host? [closed]

Question

I am looking for a free private online Bazaar source host. Does anybody know of any? I had a quick look and it seems there are lots of Git, Mercurial, and SVN options, but no Bazaar?

Just to clarify, when I say "private" I mean in the sense that you get your own private repository where you can grant access to people you choose.

Bellaude

AFAIK Git (github) does not offer private hosting for free, only for small fee. Mercurial (bitbucket) does. – Fritzsche

wow - it's been ages since I asked this question. If anyone is interested, although Launchpad was the best Bazaar online hosting solution, I ended up using Bitbucket, which is not Bazaar, but Mercurial. I found launchpad/Bazaar to be a little difficult to use, whereas I found bitbucket/Mercurial to be quite intuitive (for me). Bitbucket also supports private repos (you can determine who has access to view/check-in/etc). Anyway, hopefully that information helps someone out! – Bellaude

Not sure if it did at the time of your asking, but Bitbucket also supports Git. I am still looking for a free private Bazaar host. – Marga

Yep, I asked this question before Bitbucket did Git. Now I use Git instead of Mercurial on Bitbucket! Thanks for the comment. – Bellaude

Answer 1

http://launchpad.net - free bazaar hosting... but I don't know what do you mean by access - I think that is has same functionalisty as github (we are using it working with Moovida) but I am not quite sure.

Matelote

Yes, we tried launchpad. Unfortunately, I do not believe they allow for making repositories private (as in you can restrict access to the repos)/ – Bellaude

@Andrew: you can make private repositories on LP, but you have to pay for that. – Oshaughnessy

Launchpad now offers private Launchpad hosting, including Bazaar repositories. It's on the order of US$250/year, and apparently they're fairly flexible since it's early days. blog.launchpad.net/general/… – Prearrange

Answer 2

Bazaar can host branches over FTP. So if you have free private FTP hosting you can use it for free private bzr repository.

Fritzsche

except that bzr uses a dumb protocol over FTP which really hurts performances – Extensile

Answer 3

Two options for you :

The really private, with team support :

• Use a private SFTP or FTPS server. If you already have a web host you probably can use it for this. You can also serve a personal SFTP/FTPS server on your computer (for example you can use OpenSSH for SFTP or Pure-FTP or VSFTPD for FTPS, all of which are quick to setup on a Linux and Unix machines).

The personal sandbox , without team :

• At Launchpad ! You can freely use a personal "junk" repo at Launchpad, but without team support. Very useful if your are working on a starter project but do not want to publish it to early. You can also use it for home<->work exchanges. See https://help.launchpad.net/Code/PersonalBranches

Milwaukee

Answer 4

I just found out my current web hosting provider (http://www.webfaction.com) provides 1-command installation of bzr, plus easy instructions for installing loggerhead. Possibly others do as well, but this is the first one I've heard of.

http://docs.webfaction.com/software/bazaar.html

Dog

Answer 5

Launchpad.net

Its the home of the ubuntu disto, but its open to host any project and they use bazaar as their primary VCS tool.

Mckamey

It isn't free for private projects. – Oshaughnessy

Answer 6

See http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Hosting for a list of known hosting providers for Bazaar. There are no free hosters of private branches that I'm aware of.

Schwaben

Answer 7

Just found that Codebase provides free plan with one project/repo: git, svn, mercurial or bazaar, at your choice.

Melvamelvena