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Bidding farewell to Google Code
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Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#62Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know (and I know this isn't a huge surprise) that we will be shutting down the Google Code project hosting system over the next year. Wired did a nice story about Github that touches on the shutdown: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microso... I'll be hanging around answering questions, but the short form of 'why' is that it just isn't used much anymore, ourselves…
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"What will happen to things that are hosted on google code, like jquery and the google font set? Thousand, if not millions of pages link to these directly - will they all be invalidated? "
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
how do you (google) get away with being such asses? i know a bunch of developers will come to your defense, and say things like it is a free service, but it's not really, because for google, users are the product, and you guys have developed a rep for constantly shutting those users down. switching costs are very real, and people just don't trust you anymore. i don't care about google code in particular, but i hate g…
I might be feeding here, but the lesson is that you can't count on things Google releases to be around very long. Even APIs for popular products, like Google Maps. Just don't expect anything they release to have a long shelf life. It's annoying and it sucks, and it is now laughable when they tag things with phrases like "free code hosting forever" and so on. For them to change, they'd have to either: 1) Support every…
Why limited to google? You can't count on anything being around forever. But that is hardly revelatory.
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#64Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know (and I know this isn't a huge surprise) that we will be shutting down the Google Code project hosting system over the next year. Wired did a nice story about Github that touches on the shutdown: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microso... I'll be hanging around answering questions, but the short form of 'why' is that it just isn't used much anymore, ourselves…
Hi cdibona! I'm primary on-call at GitHub today, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone that worked on https://code.google.com/export-to-github/ and worked with us to load test it before this announcement. It's really cool to see so much work put into making it easy for folks to easily move their data.
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#65I'm not surprised, and yeah, I've assumed code on Google Code is abandoned by default. But, you know, just yet another Google product biting the dust.
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#66Once we saw that Go had moved to Github, we decided Google Code was probably being shut down soon. And now, a week after we moved our own project from Google Code to Github, it gets shut down. Feels good to have called it :)
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I might be feeding here, but the lesson is that you can't count on things Google releases to be around very long. Even APIs for popular products, like Google Maps. Just don't expect anything they release to have a long shelf life. It's annoying and it sucks, and it is now laughable when they tag things with phrases like "free code hosting forever" and so on. For them to change, they'd have to either: 1) Support every…
> Support everything into eternity 'Eternity' overstates it. Plenty of vendors support projects long after they are obsolete. IBM supported OS/2, released 1992 and a marketplace flop, until the end of 2006. That means that if I need something to be around for awhile, I'll count on IBM and not Google. Google has the perogative to make that choice, of course, and long-term support generally is associated more with the…
> IBM supported OS/2, released 1992 and a marketplace flop, until the end of 2006.
That's because users paid for it.
Google gave the world high-quality, free open source code hosting for eight years. I don't see how that's anything but a net positive.
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#68Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know (and I know this isn't a huge surprise) that we will be shutting down the Google Code project hosting system over the next year. Wired did a nice story about Github that touches on the shutdown: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microso... I'll be hanging around answering questions, but the short form of 'why' is that it just isn't used much anymore, ourselves…
While true that no one uses Google Code. Every now and then, I bump into some obscure but a little useful project being hosted on Google Code. Maybe, makers of those projects have grown out of them and don't wish to put any more effort but still, there is a bit of value, I am able to derive from them. What will happen, if those projects are not migrated because their developers have simply forgotten about them?
This is the one thing I'm a bit worried about. I've downloaded several Google Code projects this year so far alone.
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#69Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know (and I know this isn't a huge surprise) that we will be shutting down the Google Code project hosting system over the next year. Wired did a nice story about Github that touches on the shutdown: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microso... I'll be hanging around answering questions, but the short form of 'why' is that it just isn't used much anymore, ourselves…
I had my hopes up that you guys would update Google Code to be more of a contender with GAE and Compute integration.
Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code
#70Hi Chris, GitLab CEO here. What do you think about mentioning Gitlab.com as an alternative for people to move to? It has unlimited (private) projects and unlimited collaborators. It is based the open source GitLab project.
I second this motion. GitLab is amazing. It's open source and easy to deploy on your own hardware so you don't need to trust another provider.
Github is really great for the social experience, but I've been debating switching over to GitLab for all of my development projects.