I guess the great thing about DVCS is that you can have your 'latest' code available with full history at codeplex and github if you want to. And if one goes out of business, stops supporting Git or whatever you just push to bitbucket, somewhere else or self-host.

They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.

They do have a way of setting up project pages: http://pages.github.com/

And each project has a download list which can contain official releases, or you can just link to a tag as a zip download. Github also has a pretty decent issue tracker and wiki.

I'm not so sure that's a difference in focus as it is evidence for holes github has to fill. They're moving in that direction already with the project wikis, which I think are great.

I too would really like to see things like mailing lists, forums, and a bug tracker that doesn't suck (seriously guys: you couldn't just reskin bugzilla?). But I suspect github agrees with that, and will get there eventually.

I wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)