CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark

saraford — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 2pm, CodePlex surpassed the 10,000 project mark just shortly after our 3 year anniversary. Congrats to SharpFitter, a Visual Studio 2008 C# Add-in that dynamically loads plug-ins, for being our 10,000th project.

We hope to see this incredible rate of growth continue to bring more open source development to the Windows platform.

Check out the Port 25 post for more coverage on what’s been happening on CodePlex.

CodePlex Statistics

Below, you can see the upward trend of new projects each month over the past few years.

When people ask me why CodePlex has such great traffic growth, I say it is because of the quality of our projects. Happy project owners = Happy users and site visitors. Our overall site traffic stats reflect this upward growth trend as well. In fact, this will be our 7^th consecutive month of record breaking traffic.

It was recently in the news that the MS-PL is now in the top ten of OSI license usage. Here’s a breakdown of which licenses we’re hosting.

Along with 10,000 projects comes a lot of source code, approximately 160 million lines hosted across 10 Team Foundation Servers.

Here’s a breakdown of the top 7 file types we’re hosting.

Special thanks to all our project owners and our users for making CodePlex a success!

CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review

saraford — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:50:55 GMT

A couple of weeks ago, I attended CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, Ohio - my second time attending as Program Manager for CodePlex. The first year, I spent 2 days sitting non-stop with project owners and site visitors, collecting feedback about the site. Their feedback would play a significant role in determining the priorities for upcoming features. Now that a year has past, we wanted to share with you how CodePlex has grown.

Site Traffic	2008	2007	% increase from 2007
Visits	19,493,502	8,891,178	+119%
User Hours	2,804,898	1,237,356	+127%
Unique Visitors	9,811,365	4,532,440	+116%
New Registered Users	66,553	38,651	+72%
New Projects	4,542	2,130	+113%

New Features

Over 2008, we had 12 new releases of the CodePlex software, with the following top 9 features:

Subversion client support – server hosted SVN Bridge allowing SVN clients to “just work” against the CodePlex TFS servers
Site redesign – new look and feel, upgraded UI. The end of the nuclear waste green era.
Silverlight hosting – okay, technically not deployed within 2008, but who’s counting =D
Project statistics – see daily statistics of page views, downloads, and visits
Ratings and reviews – rate and review project releases
Project Discussions mailing lists – get notifications and discuss projects via e-mail alongside the online discussion boards
AJAX Source code browser – easily browse source code before download with file tree view and source code syntax highlighting
Search improvements – added sort by relevance or ratings, search by development status or license type, and search term highlighting
Discussions rich text editor – write Discussions posts using a WYSIWYG editor

Top New Projects of 2008

These are the top Open Source projects created in 2008, by page view count:

WPF - This is the main site for updates on the WPF roadmap and the portal for accessing the WPF Toolkit and the WPF Futures releases.
Silverlight - The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle.
CompositeWPF - The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications.
MVCSamples - This project is for prototype and sample ASP.NET MVC Sample applications.
Unity - The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection.
White - Automate windows applications

And as for 2009?

We’re waiting to hear your feedback! Let us know what we can do.

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CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark

CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review