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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,
by 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 agoThey 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 agoI'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 agoI wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)