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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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:15AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:15AM (#488145)

    Microsoft is only conditioning those of us who actually DO this stuff just how reliable "cloud" services are.

    Then businessmen wonder why many of us are so leery of depending on "the cloud".

    Funny thing about a lot of businessmen.... they are so gullible to a smile and handshake from some guy wearing a suit they will buy into a lot of stuff that has been shown not to be trustworthy.

    Cloud services can be very useful for ephemeral needs, but long-term stability is not guaranteed. Not unless you own the thing you need.

    As long as someone else controls that which you depend on, you are at their mercy. Looking at all this turmoil in the industry, there is no honor among suit-men. Its all greed. All the way down.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 03 2017, @04:09PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 03 2017, @04:09PM (#488246) Journal

    Ie using someone elses machine and pretending you have control .. *oops* *no carrier* ;-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:31PM (#488780)

    Related FSFE public service announcement infographic https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html#nocloud [fsfe.org]

    (FSFE being the Free Software Foundation Europe.)