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We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by justnow123 »

nl wrote: post #8

One of the GitHub founders has talked about being offered a job at Microsoft out of college, and deciding to take the risk starting GitHub instead. Must feel satisfying.... Edit: Ok, not straight out of college. No less satisfying though.

Except Tom got fired from github (well, forced resignation).

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by statictype »

EarthLaunch wrote: post #10
icehawk219 wrote: post #6

> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day. It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was definitely heavily lacking but I can't help but think that some more competition in the space would be a good thing.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

I like Bitbucket and have been using them for some time but their interface is slow and not as intuitive as Github's.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by maaarghk »

EarthLaunch wrote: post #10
icehawk219 wrote: post #6

> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day. It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was definitely heavily lacking but I can't help but think that some more competition in the space would be a good thing.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

What's better about Bitbucket? I've never used it, just wondering.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by taspeotis »

icehawk219 wrote: post #6

> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day. It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was definitely heavily lacking but I can't help but think that some more competition in the space would be a good thing.

I think Microsoft has a much better alternative to CodePlex in Visual Studio Online [1]. It doesn't feel quite the same as GitHub/Bitbucket/CodePlex because it's missing that online community feel. But it's relatively new and has been improving quite quickly [2] and it wouldn't surprise me if they started to coalesce CodePlex into VSO.

[1] http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-st...

[2] http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-dec-17-vso

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by bcantrill »

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Especially because the counter to MSFT buying GitHub was always "but... CodePlex!", and here they are explicitly moving a high-profile project from CodePlex to GitHub. Scary!

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by BillinghamJ »

EarthLaunch wrote: post #10
icehawk219 wrote: post #6

> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day. It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was definitely heavily lacking but I can't help but think that some more competition in the space would be a good thing.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

In addition to agreeing with the other comments, Github's uptime is also far better

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by markdown »

maaarghk wrote: post #15
EarthLaunch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of competition, from Bitbucket, which is better. "Social" effects notwithstanding, of course.

What's better about Bitbucket? I've never used it, just wondering.

Private buckets for non-free accounts, for starters
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