When comparing Cydra vs Gitorious, the Slant community recommends Gitorious for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted web-based Git repository managers?” Gitorious is ranked 14th while Cydra is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Gitorious is:
In contrast to GitHub, Gitorious is not user-centered, it is project centered.
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Pros
Pro Multiple version control systems
Cydra supports Git, SVN, Mercurial.
Pro Project focused
In contrast to GitHub, Gitorious is not user-centered, it is project centered.
Pro Supports pull requests
Has pull request (aka merge request) support.
Pro Wikis
You can create your project wiki with Gitorious.
Cons
Con Repository Hasn't been touched in over a year
No pull requests have been merged in over a year.
Con To be discontinued on June 1st
Gitorious was acquired by GitLab on 3 March 2015 and they have announced that Gitorious will be discounted on June 1st.
Con Destructive installation
Gitorious installation will change settings without asking.