Codeplex site is shutting down

After almost 11 years CodePlex, is shutting down -  GitHub is the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there.
Microsoft has invested in Visual Studio Team Services as its “One Engineering System” for proprietary projects, and  exposed many of key open source projects on GitHub (Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, .NET, the Cognitive Toolkit, and more).
GitHub organization now has more than 16,000 open source contributors –
Partly due to a spam epidemic over several months in 2015, as spammers sought to take advantage of the CodePlex.com and a general  in usage: as of this writing, less than 350 projects saw a source code commit in the last 30 days.

The shutdown plan

So, it’s time to say goodbye to CodePlex.  As of now its disabled the ability to create new CodePlex projects. 

In October, CodePlex will be read-only, before shutting it down completely on December 15^th, 2017.

Then afinal, complete backup of the site before shutting down and decommissioning the existing CodePlex site and servers.

At that time, CodePlex.com will start serving a read-only lightweight archive that will allow you to browse through all published projects – their source code, downloads, documentation, license, and issues – as they looked when CodePlex went read-only.  You’ll also be able to download an archive file with your project contents, all in common, transferrable formats like Markdown and JSON.  Where possible, there will be redirects so that existing URLs work, or at least redirect you to the project’s new homepage on the archive. The archive will respect your “I’ve moved” setting, if you used it, to direct users to the current home of your project.

There isn’t currently any plan to have an end date for the archive.

The CodePlex Archive will allow you to download an archive file,