Editing Open-source software (section)

===Development tools===
In open-source software development, tools are used to support the development of the product and the development process itself.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |last1=Napoleao |first1=Bianca M. |last2=Petrillo |first2=Fabio |last3=Halle |first3=Sylvain |chapter=Open Source Software Development Process: A Systematic Review |date=2020 |title=2020 IEEE 24th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9233046 |publisher=IEEE |pages=135–144 |doi=10.1109/EDOC49727.2020.00025 |arxiv=2008.05015 |isbn=978-1-7281-6473-1}}</ref>

[[Version control]] systems such as Centralized Version control system (CVCS) and the [[distributed version control|distributed version control system]] (DVCS)  are examples of tools, often open source, that help manage the source code files and the changes to those files for a software project in order to foster collaboration.<ref name=":16">{{Cite journal |last1=Zolkifli |first1=Nazatul Nurlisa |last2=Ngah |first2=Amir |last3=Deraman |first3=Aziz |date=2018 |title=Version Control System: A Review |journal=Procedia Computer Science |language=en |volume=135 |pages=408–415 |doi=10.1016/j.procs.2018.08.191|doi-access=free }}</ref> CVCS are centralized with a central repository while DVCS are decentralized and have a local repository for every user.<ref name=":16" /> [[Concurrent Versions System]] (CVS) and later [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]] (SVN) and [[Git (software)|Git]] are examples of CVCS.<ref name=":16" /> The [[Repository (version control)|repositories]] are hosted and published on [[Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities|source-code-hosting facilities]] such as [[GitHub]].<ref name=":16" />

Open-source projects use utilities such as issue trackers to organize open-source software development. Commonly used [[Bug tracking system|bug tracker]]s include [[Bugzilla]] and [[Redmine]].<ref name=":10" />

Tools such as [[mailing lists]] and [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] provide means of coordination and discussion of bugs among developers.<ref name=":10" /> Project web pages, wiki pages, roadmap lists and newsgroups allow for the distribution of project information that focuses on end users.<ref name=":10" />