Microsoft shuts down CodePlex on December 15th, 2017

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Microsoft announced yesterday that it will shut down its open-source project hosting website CodePlex on December 15, 2017.

 

The company launched CodePlex in 2006 as a place to "share software". CodePlex enabled anyone to create and share projects. The site offered various tools for that, including a wiki software, source control based on Mercurial, Subversion, Git discussion forums, issues tracking, RSS support, and a lot more.

 

While CodePlex has been the home to a wide variety of projects, its focus lay on projects using Microsoft software such as the .NET Framework or ASP.NET.

 

When you visit CodePlex right now, you see the shut down notification at the top of the site. It links to this blog post.

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Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye.  We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software.  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.

We migrated too.  As many of you know, Microsoft has invested in Visual Studio Team Services as our “One Engineering System” for proprietary projects, and we’ve exposed many of our key open source projects on GitHub (Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, .NET, the Cognitive Toolkit, and more).  In fact, our GitHub organization now has more than 16,000 open source contributors – more than any other organization – and we’re proud to partner closely with GitHub to promote open source.

 

Reasons for shutting down CodePlex include a decrease in usage -- less than 350 projects hat a code commit in the past 30 days -- a spam epidemic in 2015, and the migration of a lot of projects to GitHub. In fact, most of Microsoft's own projects moved to GitHub as well.

Microsoft plans to shut down Codeplex on December 15th, 2017. The company will set all projects to read-only starting October 2017, and has disabled the option to create new CodePlex projects already.

 

A full backup of the site will be created before the shut down. Shut down means that Microsoft will decommission the existing CodePlex site and servers, and replace it with a read-only, archived copy of the site.

 

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Say goodbye to CodePlex. Microsoft just recently announced that it will be shutting down CodePlex, the eleven year-old open-source project hosting website. Microsoft has disabled the ability to create new projects and will officially shut the website down on December 15th, 2017.

CodePlex was initially launched in 2006 in order to share development of open-source software. The website included a number of projects, but was best known for its activities around the .NET framework. The site had manage to accumulate tens of thousands of projects.

 

 

Why are we bidding adieu to CodePlex? Microsoft is choosing to hitch its wagon to Github. According to Microsoft Corporation Vice President Brian Harry, “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.”

Thanks to the popularity of Github, CodePlex has seen fewer contributors over the years. Harry noted, “...less than 350 projects saw a source code commit in the last 30 days.” To top it off, CodePlex witnessed a spam “epidemic” in 2015 where spammers attempted to use the site for a number of illegal purposes.

 

 

Microsoft has worked over the years to migrate over to Github, with the company investing in Visual Studio Team Services for proprietary projects and chosing to share projects on Github. Microsoft currently has 16,000 contributors on Github, the largest presence on the site.

 

What can CodePlex users expect over the next few months? First, as of yesterday, users will no longer be able to create new projects. In October, CodePlex will switch over to a read-only format. Users will still be able to download their archive in transferable file formats. Microsoft and Github are also providing migration tools to help bring CodePlex source code, license, and documentation over to Github. CodePlex will completely shut down on December 15th.

 

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