The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money
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Microsoft is an amazing leader of Open Source (according to Microsoft). Which is why they're Bravely making the Bold, Forward-Thinking decision to shut down their open-source code repository: Codeplex.
Shutting down CodePlex
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,
Blah blah blah we're amazing leaders blah blah blah champion of open source blah blah blah bullshit reasons and GONE.
Sure there's a "migration" process-- but how many of those projects that were created over 11 years are actively maintained? How many of them have owners who even remember the password? Or are even alive?
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@Lorne-Kates They're moving all their own stuff to GitHub nowadays.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
Sure there's a "migration" process-- but how many of those projects that were created over 11 years are actively maintained? How many of them have owners who even remember the password? Or are even alive?
I don't understand the problem:
We’ll take a final, complete backup of the site before shutting down and decommissioning the existing CodePlex site and servers.
At that time, CodePlex.com will start serving a read-only lightweight archive that will allow you to browse through all published projects – their source code, downloads, documentation, license, and issues – as they looked when CodePlex went read-only. You’ll also be able to download an archive file with your project contents, all in common, transferrable formats like Markdown and JSON. Where possible, we’ll put in place redirects so that existing URLs work, or at least redirect you to the project’s new homepage on the archive. And, the archive will respect your “I’ve moved” setting, if you used it, to direct users to the current home of your project.
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They will keep an archive versión available
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@Lorne-Kates This is old news. The majority of projects are already on Github and it will be put into read only for quite a while.
This is no different to what Google have done with Google Code.
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The real question is whether, after they've archived everything, they'll change the URL scheme every month or two to keep up with the rest of their web presence.
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@boomzilla That is rather irritating. Until about 2013 they had a really good tutorial on how to deal with ASP.NET Repeater Controls.
This stuff is obviously webforms which most web devs seem vile but don't mind running 20 JS libs and using ASP.NET MVC to get the same product and charging 3x as much.
When they refreshed the site the tutorial was gone. I long last the wayback machine link.
4guysrolla has loads of good content. While the site looks shit and if you can do VB.NET and C# it is easy to modify and update the examples.
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When Google shut down Google Code did you write a bitchy post like this?
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Github is the Google of code at this point.
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I still don't understand github. Sounds and smells like crap. I'm quite happy with SVN.
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@CHUDbert said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
I still don't understand github. Sounds and smells like crap. I'm quite happy with SVN.
GitHub supports SVN.
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@ben_lubar said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
GitHub supports an SVN interface in front of Git.
FTFY
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@CHUDbert you can always use bit bucket if you don't like github! I use it to store personal repos because you can get private hosting for free. IIRC they also support quite a few VCSes.
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@boomzilla said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
The real question is whether, after they've archived everything, they'll change the URL scheme every month or two
i wouldn't expect anything less.
URLs that are valid for more than a year are for old people.
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@El_Heffe said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
@boomzilla said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
The real question is whether, after they've archived everything, they'll change the URL scheme every month or two
i wouldn't expect anything less.
URLs that are valid for more than a year are for old people.
It's a good thing this forum has a lot of
or /t/1000 wouldn't mean anything anymore.
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@El_Heffe URLs are for old people. Thanks to client-side states and SPAfication, no one will ever be able to link to any specific page on a site
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@blakeyrat said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
When Google shut down Google Code did you write a bitchy post like this?
Of course not. Because Google Does No Evil.
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@blakeyrat said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
When Google shut down Google Code did you write a bitchy post like this?
I remember a lot of bitching back then too. But perhaps not by @Lorne-Kates; you have a point.
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@dkf possibly it just didn't impact him. No projects on CodePlex I care about but there was one on Google's thing that I care about, and it is now inferior since it moved to GitHub.
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@blakeyrat said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
When Google shut down Google Code did you write a bitchy post like this?
Probably. Try to search for it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Internet is Forever-- unless it's costing Microsoft money:
When Google shut down Google Code did you write a bitchy post like this?
I wrote an insightful post when Google shut down Google Code...
