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Talks About New Microsoft Site to Replace SoundForge

Microsoft unveils a new community development site that might replace SourceForge site or even Microsoft`s own GotDotnet site, as the place for Microsoft`s open source software projects. There`s no official word from Microsoft yet, but the company`s bloggers are discussing the issue, and it`s currently the hottest topic on their forums.

"My immediate answer is always, "That isn`t up to me. It is up to the community," Microsoft`s Rob Mensching wrote in a recent blog post about the issue. "In fact, if you had asked me two weeks ago I would have told you that I wasn`t even considering moving off of SourceForge because things were working. However, in the last couple of weeks a few issues have popped up. First, there have been some very disturbing outages and poor communication from SourceForge."

The CodePlex portal is built on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and other .NET technologies. Among the projects expected to migrate to the new site is Microsoft`s IronPython project. IronPython is an implementation of the Python open source programming language running on .NET. In a statement e-mailed to Internet Net News, a Microsoft spokesperson said CodePlex is intended to be a community development site hosted by Microsoft. It will serve as a repository for open and shared source projects.