Alioth was a FusionForge system run by the Debian project for development of free software and free documentation, especially software or documentation to do with Debian.
[1] Most of the projects hosted by Alioth were packaging existing software in the Debian format.
[3] Originally Alioth was to be hosted on the SourceForge code base; the Free Software version of GForge was chosen later as it avoided the need to duplicate effort spent on rebranding SourceForge.
In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org.
[5] Alioth administrators have included Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.