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Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful V

by jabits 15y ago

Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.

skrebbel 15y ago
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
- bunderbunder 15y ago
  They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
  - cameronh90 15y ago
    They do have a way of setting up project pages: http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/ And each project has a download list which can contain official releases, or you can just link to a tag as a zip download. Github also has a pretty decent issue tracker and wiki.
  - ajross 15y ago
    I'm not so sure that's a difference in focus as it is evidence for holes github has to fill. They're moving in that direction already with the project wikis, which I think are great. I too would really like to see things like mailing lists, forums, and a bug tracker that doesn't suck (seriously guys: you couldn't just reskin bugzilla?). But I suspect github agrees with that, and will get there eventually.
  - soc88 15y ago
    I wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)
- josephcooney 15y ago
  I guess the great thing about DVCS is that you can have your 'latest' code available with full history at codeplex and github if you want to. And if one goes out of business, stops supporting Git or whatever you just push to bitbucket, somewhere else or self-host.
facorreia 15y ago
I agree, Visual Studio and C# are great tools, and complemented by open source tools like Git, libraries and extensions like SpecFlow, it makes a pretty compelling development environment.
boyter 15y ago
Totally agree. If they threw their weight behind Mono C# would be my language of choice for everything.

by jabits 15y ago

skrebbel 15y ago

Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.

bunderbunder 15y ago
They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
- cameronh90 15y ago
  They do have a way of setting up project pages: http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/ And each project has a download list which can contain official releases, or you can just link to a tag as a zip download. Github also has a pretty decent issue tracker and wiki.
- ajross 15y ago
  I'm not so sure that's a difference in focus as it is evidence for holes github has to fill. They're moving in that direction already with the project wikis, which I think are great. I too would really like to see things like mailing lists, forums, and a bug tracker that doesn't suck (seriously guys: you couldn't just reskin bugzilla?). But I suspect github agrees with that, and will get there eventually.
- soc88 15y ago
  I wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)
josephcooney 15y ago
I guess the great thing about DVCS is that you can have your 'latest' code available with full history at codeplex and github if you want to. And if one goes out of business, stops supporting Git or whatever you just push to bitbucket, somewhere else or self-host.

facorreia 15y ago

I agree, Visual Studio and C# are great tools, and complemented by open source tools like Git, libraries and extensions like SpecFlow, it makes a pretty compelling development environment.

boyter 15y ago

Totally agree. If they threw their weight behind Mono C# would be my language of choice for everything.