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Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub

posted by martyb on Monday April 03 2017, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the version-control-control dept.

Fnord666 writes:

"Site will go read-only in October and will be turned into static archive by year end."

Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company's open source project-hosting service, will be closed down.

Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based initially on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server source control and later added options to use Subversion, Mercurial, and Git.

At the time, there weren't a tremendous number of good options for hosting projects. SourceForge was the big one, but it always seemed light on feature development and heavy on advertising. CodePlex on the Web was much more attractive and less cluttered. The use of TFS for source control meant it also had strong integration in Visual Studio.

But these days, GitHub is the default choice for most open source projects. This applies to Microsoft, too; the company is using GitHub to host projects such as .NET and its Chakra JavaScript engine. Activity on CodePlex has declined, with fewer than 350 projects seeing code commits over the last 30 days.

Source: ArsTechnica

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Monday April 03 2017, @04:34AM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 03 2017, @04:34AM (#488105) Journal

    M$ does it a lot too, maybe more. Here's a list of M$ cancelled (failed) projects for the few years preceding 2013 [techrights.org].

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Monday April 03 2017, @01:52PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday April 03 2017, @01:52PM (#488188) Journal
    The difference is, looking at that list, it's pretty unlikely anyone would miss them. In contrast, Google cancels things that people actually like, because they can't work out how to put enough adverts on them to make them profitable.
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