GForge is a web-based collaborative development platform. It provides a set of tools to help your team develop collaboratively, such as forums, mailing lists, etc. Tools for creating and controlling access to source code management repositories (such as CVS, Subversion). GForge will automatically create a source code repository and control access based on the project's role settings. Other tools include: management file release, document management, news announcements, defect tracking, task management, etc.