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 comunication between members of a development team. The tools provided by GForge allow the team members to comunicate and organize their work effectively. This allows the creation of a knowledgebase. GForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project.

GForge has gained a lot of importance due to its unique features like a website for every project, versioning via CVS, task management, mailing lists, discussion forums, bug tracking, file uploads/releases, full backups, posting of news, sharing of documentation etc. The tasks and the tracker items (to track bugs, patches, support requests, enhancement requests) can be classified using status, priority, and category.

GForge is a fork of the 2.61 SourceForge code, which was only available via anonymous CVS from VA (Research|Linux|Software). After rewritten the GForge code, the software is now internationalised, translated, themable and comprises a plug-in system, and is generally better.

The GForge project was formed and is maintained by Tim Perdue, the original author of much of the original SourceForge web code.

GForge is also a free service to Open Source developers.