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Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft corporate vice president Brian Harry announced in a blog post today that they are shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software. "As of this post, we've disabled the ability to create new CodePlex projects," Harry wrote. "In October, we'll set CodePlex to read-only, before shutting it down completely on December 15th, 2017." VentureBeat reports: While people will be able to download an archive of their data, Microsoft is teaming up with GitHub, which provides similar functionality for hosting code that people can collaborate on, to give users "a streamlined import experience" to migrate code and related content there. "Over the years, we've seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there," Harry wrote. Microsoft has been leaning in more and more to GitHub in the past few years. It moved the CNTK deep learning toolkit from CodePlex to GitHub last year. Today Microsoft's GitHub organization has more than 16,000 open source contributors, Harry wrote. And last year GitHub itself made a big deal about Microsoft's adoption of GitHub. At the same time, CodePlex has rotted. In the past month people have made commits to fewer than 350 projects, Harry wrote. GitHub is based on the Git open source version control software, which keeps track of changes by multiple people. People can move code to alternative systems like Atlassian's Bitbucket and Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services, Harry wrote. The startup GitLab also offers hosting for open and closed source projects.
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Yeah, I've never heard of this "Git Hub". Perhaps I'll check it out!
thats not true hes an athiest
He's a Hellenic reconstructionst pagan.
Certainly makes a lot of sense to place everything in one place. GitHub sounds like the best place.
I was going to say "about time!", but then I realized how good it was to keep Microsoft code constrained to a single site without polluting the rest of the internet.
Slashvertisement for what?
You need to get out more.
Github, duh.
Surely you aren't suggesting that only companies you haven't heard of need to advertise - because that would be moronic.
I've found a bunch of useful software there that has been abandoned and not been moved to Github. Why shut it down? They could've made one guy have a part time job watching over it, and kept the stuff running on Azure.
GMT time, beotch.
It seems we are moving toward a Github monoculture. That will turn it into a high value target for attackers.
The ironic point is that git nice point is to be distributed, and despite this, we move to a single central hub.
True. They even leapfrogged download.com in terms of spyware.
lucm, indeed.
Why is Microsoft just retreating? They need to grow a pair.
I find it ironic that Microsoft is pushing everybody over to using GIT since it was created by Linus Torvalds to help the community develop and manage code for Linux better.
hardly, codeplex is hugely popular, they aren't shutting up shop because of lack of use, they are migrating to the even big pond of bithub.
Slashdot owns SourceForge lol
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Can't help but notice this reply was posted at exactly 2017-04-01 0:00.
lucm, indeed.
As a past long-time SourceForge user, I'm afraid I see no reason to come back and plenty of reasons to not do so.
There is, though, a feature SourceForge used to have that I dearly miss: the Compile Farm. At least two of TUI programs I maintain notoriously fail to build on some obscure platform, usually OS X; getting a report after a release and having to beg such a random user for help is not fun. No other platform requires a large monetary investment (you can run MiddayCockroachBSD and Green Pickelhaube in VirtualBox/KVM, MS used to give Insider Preview for gratis, etc) but figuring out how to install/upgrade all of them is also a significant chunk of time. Especially getting MIPS and the likes to run in QEMU is pretty involved. A typical developer owns an amd64 box and a couple of armhf/arm64 boards, but nothing more exotic.
Unlike 2007 when you shut down the Compile Farm, ways to contain untrusted users do exist nowadays and are mature: containers, kvm, etc. Thus, it'd be a great help if Compile Farm could be brought back.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Your mom needs to get around less.
I don't get it. Microsoft is moving their stuff from CodePlex to github. But Microsoft offers VSTS, which is their own service that competes with github. They both provide git + a web UI for bug tracking, releasing, pull requests, etc. Why would they move to github instead of to VSTS? And why would they make a migration tool that migrates to github instead of VSTS? This is like Microsoft deciding to cancel Windows Vista, and making a migration tool that migrates to Linux instead of to Windows 10. Did they forget about their own product?
Not sure what kind of applications you maintain, but using qemu-user is pretty much 0-effort. You just need to be able for your tests to run a wrapper, but I would hope you are already using valgrind and all that should thus already be there.
qemu-user is nice when it works, yeah. Too bad, it notoriously interferes with debugging, has broken threading, and badly lags wrt compatibility with current kernels. For example, currently powerpc and powerpcspe guests on amd64 fail at network access (it used to work quite recently). qemu-system has none of such problems.
Also, qemu-user won't let me catch that Green Pickelhaube's kernels are now built with a seappgrarmor patch that disallows unprivileged user programs to add 2 to an even number. And obviously doesn't work with *BSD at all.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I didn't have any special reason to love CodePlex, but I'm still sorry to see it and so many other such services go.
As nice as Github's features are, electing a single organization (inevitably with its own political agenda) as the planet's one source for development repos is a tremendously bad idea. Way too much concentration of power for abuse and way too low an organizational bus factor in case something goes wrong.
I've been pleased with the changes made here at Slashdot and at SourceForge since Dice sold them to BizX. SourceForge has a long way to go in regaining trust and catching up on features, but it's headed in the right direction. The changes they're making will help stem the exodus and I for one certainly hope it becomes good enough to be a real competitor to GitHub for new projects.