CodePlex going to shut down

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by FanJ, Apr 2, 2017.

  1. FanJ

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    I saw that CodePlex is going to shut down.

    Announcement about it on 31 March 2017 at the blog of Brian Harry :
    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/03/31/shutting-down-codeplex/

    You can read more there about it, but I'll give some quotes:

     
  2. FanJ

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    There were a lot of comments, of all kinds, at that blog about Microsoft shutting it down.
    (And no, it wasn't an April fools joke).
    For now it only implies that no new CodePlex projects can be started there. But later this year (2017), in October, it will be set to read-only. And in December there will be only an archive available (without the discussions as I understood it). So at some moment the open source programs currently available at CodePlex will have to migrate to some other place.

    I don't know all the CodePlex programs that were mentioned here at the Wilders board and that will be confronted with this shutting down.
    So, I name just two of them. If you know about more, by any means ...

    1. Path Copy Copy
    Wilders thread: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/path-copy-copy.385124/
    CodePlex site: https://pathcopycopy.codeplex.com/

    2. VeraCrypt
    Several threads here at Wilders.
    CodePlex site: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/
    I think that it has also a site at SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/
    but I have to leave that to those who are more familiar with VeraCrypt.
     
  3. FanJ

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    As posted in April 2017, CodePlex is going to shut down.

    https://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Moving CodePlex to read-only

     
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