Best Open Source Project Hosting Site

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I want to start an open source project, but the rise in hosting sites leaves me a little paralyzed with choice. I know a little about several:

I never really liked SourceForge's UI but it still feels like the site I think of when I think "open source project hosting".
Google Code Project Hosting looks clean and useful but doesn't seem as feature complete as SourceForge.
I've heard good things about Launchpad but don't know much about it nor do I know Bazaar (though I'd be interested in learning it).
I know almost nothing about GitHub and, like Bazaar, I don't know Git.

Does anyone have any experience with these sites or some other cool code host? Any recommendations?

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