Code hosting providers (was: Google Code Shutting Down)

[Steven D'Aprano]

Ben Finney wrote:

> Also worth watching is Kallithea, a new federated code hosting service
> <URL:https://kallithea-scm.org/>. It supports Mercurial and Git for VCS,
> code review, and integrates with existing issue trackers. Because it's
> federated, you won't suffer from vendor lock-in.


What do you mean by "federated"?


-- 
Steven