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Visual F# has moved to GitHub

  • 01/13/2015

It’s official, the Visual F# project has moved from Codeplex to GitHub! Our new home is https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp.

This brings us closer to the longtime home of the F# Open Edition, addresses one of our top bugs, and puts us on the same hosting platform as other great Microsoft open source projects like .NET Core, Typescript, and (soon) Roslyn.

We ask our community to move all development activities to the GitHub repo, starting today.

A few bits of bookkeeping:

  • History will remain fully intact. We are just re-hosting our git repo from Codeplex to GitHub.
  • PRs remaining on Codeplex will be discussed, serviced, and closed from there, they do not need to be migrated. We will merge those changes and push them to GitHub.
  • Issues open on Codeplex will remain there for the time being, with a migration plan TBD.
  • Discussions on Codeplex will not be migrated. Any new “discussions” should be opened as GitHub issues.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2015
    I guess since MS is abandoning CodePlex en masse, CodePlex is probably a dead man walking.  It's too bad.  I rather liked CodePlex.

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2015
    @Timothy: I'm not on the F# team, but when my team made the decision to release .NET Core on GitHub we simply decided it based on which platform has the most mind share. Selecting which open source hosting site to use is not just a function of features. As far as I'm concerned, CodePlex provides a great feature set and I was a happy and loyal customer for a long time (even before I joined Microsoft). However, another dimension is whether it is actually frequented by our customers. From that point of view, an open source side is also evaluated on the basis of whether it's an attractive social network. And GitHub clearly is the Facebook of open source hosting sites.

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2015
    Shame microsoft is killing codeplex. This is pathetic!