And that's why you should never ever rely on a Google service.
At least, not without a contingency plan that could be implemented in 30-90 days.
Bidding farewell to Google Code
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#142I'm sticking to self-hosted fossil-scm. Very simple, lightweight, C, but has full wiki and issue tracker and code trees.
The one thing self-hosting lacks is the social network. What is really needed for self hosted sites is a federated network (maybe with something like pump.io and openID) to allow coders from other self-hosted or sass hosts to seamlessly login and contribute and display their profile, and to help mitigate spam.
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#143There goes my PageRank. Thanks Google.
Does anyone know of a way to make the landing page at GitHub look less confusing than the default? That is the #1 reason I went with GC. I want first time users to see descriptive text not an activity log.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please can you add a way for projects on google code to do a redirect to wherever they have gone. I moved all my projects late 2013, put notices on all pages I could etc, but still searching for the project often shows the google code site first. https://code.google.com/p/apsw/ Google Code did one thing very well - each project could have one wiki and issue tracker, but any number of source code repos. This is fantas…
Google Code already has an option to flag a project as moved. From your project: Administer > Advanced > Project Moved For an example of what this looks like: http://code.google.com/p/iosched
Thanks - I never knew that existed. The admin ui and result aren't particularly nice sadly.
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#145I have to wonder, are we all really comfortable with GitHub being basically the only free code hosting option? Yes, SourceForge(t) is still around, but with the talk of them injecting adware into downloads, I'm sure many wouldn't use them. This leaves, what, BitBucket and running something yourself?
Bitbucket, Gitlab, Assembla, repo.or.cz and a bunch of others.
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#146Hi 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.
It is a very nice system, but the stuff that goes into a shutdown had me fighting to keep the message as tight as possible. I wanted to go on about Bitbucket, gitlab, and put in a long discussion about how this doesn't effect the scalable git team at google at all (we host android and chrome and a ton of internal teams on a git backed on our backends here) , but had to keep the message pure... But I heartily recommen…
Rather than recommending a specific Git hoster such as Github, you should have listed out alternatives... especially as Google Code also supports Subversion and Mercurial.
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#147CodePlex will be next is my guess.
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#148Hi 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.
It is a very nice system, but the stuff that goes into a shutdown had me fighting to keep the message as tight as possible. I wanted to go on about Bitbucket, gitlab, and put in a long discussion about how this doesn't effect the scalable git team at google at all (we host android and chrome and a ton of internal teams on a git backed on our backends here) , but had to keep the message pure... But I heartily recommen…
Thanks for the honest answer! I know a lot of geeks wont agree with this, but the reality is when you are doing PR (or anything else, including/especially software engineering) you need to be as simple as possible.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Code already has an option to flag a project as moved. From your project: Administer > Advanced > Project Moved For an example of what this looks like: http://code.google.com/p/iosched
That's great, until code.google.com no longer resolves, at which point it won't help :( Would be nice if they used that info to automatically redirect to the new site.
They also should be returning a 301 and the new URL so crawlers can follow it and delete the old site from their records...
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#150Hi 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?
We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.com