I have a project managed on codeplex.com.
Does it ever make sense to push source releases to github or googlecode?
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I have a project managed on codeplex.com.
Does it ever make sense to push source releases to github or googlecode?
I don’t know of any reason to mirror just the source code from your “home” site to another one, and having observed thousands of open source projects, I can’t recall any of them having done that so I really don’t think there is a reason for it.
However there are a couple reasons why people might want to mirror their project releases (e.g. the installer versus the source code). Here are the two reasons a project might want to do that (and I’ve definitely seen examples of both of these):
Your project is multi-platform – CodePlex is the best place to reach Windows users, so if your software runs on Windows you’ll get the most downloads by hosting your project releases there. However if your software also runs on Linux, very few Linux users look for software on CodePlex, so you might want to host the releases on SourceForge as well since it has a high number of Linux users.
Your preferred site for development is different then the best site to reach your audience – The project development features vary between the sites, so take a theoretical example of you love using CVS but your project software runs on Windows. SourceForge is the only site that supports CVS, so you might choose to host your project there for development purposes, however you would likely also want to mirror the releases to CodePlex since you’ll be able to get the most downloads from Windows users there.