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We have removed Sandcastle project from Codeplex after carefully evaluating the feedback from this thread

So code publishing is a requirement for CodePlex? What happens to other projects without source code?

What if the source is provided, but it's not an OSI approved license?

I became to know this project this Friday. I was trying to find a successor of Ndoc. It wad a bit sad for me that the Ndoc was not continued after the year 2004. Luckily i find Sandcastle at last.But Unfortunately the source code was not there, so another hurt came.I've sawn a lot of guys have expressed their sad and anger on the Project's talk. The project is really cool, i love it.

It's really sad to know that SandCastle was removed from CodePlex.

I've contacted Eric Woodruf and he was kind enough to send me the May 2008 release of SandCastle.

If anyone needs it I've mirrored it here: pjondevelopment.50webs.com/blog/2008/06/sandcastle-may-2008-binaries.html

Regards,

Paulo Santos

Thanks - I've also made it available here: http://www.fluidscape.co.nz/?q=node/99

I don't think it's sad that it's been removed from CodePlex though - I think it's good for CodePlex, good for OSS in general, good for Microsoft's reputation and ultimately will be good for Sandcastle (as it will clarify whether Sandcastle is closed or open source, and if the latter may expedite the source release).

CodePlex is Microsoft's open-source hosting web-site. I support the decision made..

What if the source code is provided but it is hosted elsewhere? Meaning the codeplex site is the main "hub" for discussiosn and feature requests and wikis but the actual source is hosted elsewhere (non TFS for example)?

Si vous avez tenter d'obtenir les binaires de Sandcastle ces derniers temps, vous aurez sans doute remarqué

Well we will be sure to make sure the source code is available for download on the releases tab at the very least.

I have seen the SVN bridge, personally I really like TFS and would much rather use it 99% of the time but the guys who started the project I am referring to have opted to use github for this project (which of course has no work items or wikis or discussion forums). Personally I rather like TFS and wish we were using that but I just wanted to be sure we were inline with the CodePlex agreements!

Thanks for doing a great job (though that ugly green color could sure go away)!