CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Jim Parshall — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:07:06 GMT

Great job on the new look and it looks very nice.

You folks really do the .net community well. Thanks!

Oh, and I was stuck in some of that lovely snow too though most of the time I was home in Cupertino. But, the time I was in Redmond was whoa nelly slippy!

Later, Jim

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Scott Willhite — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:25:33 GMT

Hey Gang ~ You should have been over here (West Seattle) driving in it! Knew that tow strap would come in handy ;)

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Sara Ford — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:57:48 GMT

@koyama Thanks for the feedback. I want to clarify that we've changed the overall look of the site only once since 2007. Since we do agile development (we deploy every 3 weeks) we've had to implement small changes to the site's look slowly over the past 3-6 months. We went with the project pages first, then project directory, and lastly the codeplex homepage. Every time we update the site, we make an announcement about the changes, but all changes have been towards this single new look.

If you have any suggestions for features or issues to be fixed within the single project, feel free to contact me directly or vote/open items in the CodePlex issue tracker. http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/WorkItem/List.aspx

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Marco Ragogna — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:59:41 GMT

Personally I like the new style a lot, much more than the previous one! Nice work

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Hartvig — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:08:53 GMT

Great stuff - thanks for this special holiday treat. The performance enhancements in the Issue tracker is very obvious!

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re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

koyama — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:56:18 GMT

CodePlex is the only site I know of changing look every few months. Too frequent changes makes users uncomfortable with the site.

Not sure why the look and feel of the project directory is getting so much attention. It is barely needed at all! Most of the utilities you are offering are redundant. There is actually already a way to bookmark a page using ones browser! I'd prefer that you concentrate more on improving the environment within the single project.

Congratulations with the performance improvements for the issue tracker. Still, site is generally much too slow, navigation is far from seamless. But good start. Keep on optimizing.

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

John — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:00:55 GMT

I like the new look! Keep up the great work.

re: CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look

Giacomo Stelluti Scala (gsscoder user @ codeplex web site) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:01:55 GMT

I start used open source hosting web site form 2005 and my first (o.s.) project (Command Line Parser Lib) was published here.

Each year (or less this site is getting even better about look and features).

But there's one think I don't like (but I think this thing will not change because has political-commercial implications) the use custom tools/protocols to manage source code versioning (history teaches us that open architecture gain over proprietary): this is why I prefer (for now) attach zipped source tree to each release.

I don't like proprietary techs like the one behind the source management system of codeplex (I think it's the V.S.Team Foundation Protocol). OK leave it exactly where it is but don't let people work with svn in bridged mode! ---> Give people a real SVN access... And another thing leave TAGs - this is an useful thing - but please add real categories like other sites of this kind...

For the rest, I love this site!!! :-)