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CodePlex
CodePlex homepage
CodePlex homepage
Type of site
Community / project hosting
Available inEnglish
OwnerMicrosoft
URLhttp://www.codeplex.com/
RegistrationOptional

CodePlex is an open source project hosting website from Microsoft. It allows shared development of open source software. Its features include wiki pages, source control based on Team Foundation Server but accessible using Subversion, discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases. Some of the available licenses are not open source licenses according to the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative[1].

While Codeplex encompasses a wide variety of projects, including SQL, WPF and Windows Forms-related projects, major activities center around the .NET framework, including ASP.NET, and Microsoft's intranet collaboration server, SharePoint. The most prominent and used project that was born inside CodePlex, the AJAX Control Toolkit is a joint project between the community and Microsoft.

History

The initial beta launched in May 2006, with the official release a month later in June. A new version of the website is released every three weeks adding additional features and updates. It has accumulated 10,334 projects as of July 23, 2009.

Criticism

In his article Lest Codeplex Perplex[2], Richard Stallman, the President of Free Software Foundation, express serious doubts about the CodePlex Foundation's role and goals, which he sees as a puppet of Microsoft.

In his article The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions (and Recommendations)[3], Andrew Updegrove, discusses aspects of the codeplex structure that might limit effective community contributions.

See also

References

  1. ^ Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well - By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco (3rd October 2008) The Register
  2. ^ Lest Codeplex Perplex - an article by Richard Stallman
  3. ^ The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions (and Recommendations) an article by Andrew Updegrove
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