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While I agree that Google Code, as it is right now, isn't needed anymore, I believe there is still room for innovation in this space and I wish there were more players than github, pushing the boundaries harder. As a software developer is a tool that we use all day.
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Thanks for the concrete examples. GitLab is faster in on some pages. The commit page probably is slower, but not by so much: wget https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commits/master master.1 [ ] 66.40K 382KB/s in 0.2s wget https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/commits/master master.2 100%[=====================>] 183.50K 662KB/s in 0.3s Again, your milage may vary (cache) and I do agree that the commits page of GitH…
> GitLab is faster in on some pages. The commit page probably is slower, but not by so much: For the initial HTTP request maybe and if you're in the US. Gitlab is painfully slow when loaded from a European network connection and you factor in the time it takes to fetch all resources. Cached or uncached. > GitLab doesn't have preview support for as many features as GitHub, but it has many other features GitHub doesn't…
I think protected branches are really nice for open source projects too, although I agree that most contributions will come from forks. Right now no open source projects use Git Annex but that might change now that it becomes easier to use, probably it is really nice if you have an open source game with huge digital assets.
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> I work on Google Code, and we will be putting a service in place to redirect deep links to project homepages, issues, etc. to their new locations. And this is an opt in service, nothing is automated. They could ,AT LEAST, partner with Github or someone else to have the whole thing automated... Seriously... the really want to put 0 money in that stuff,they don't give a damn. There are seriously good projects that wi…
On what planet is shutting down a service, with months and months of notice, evil? I get it, we all hate Google on HN (for reasons unclear to me) but this is ridiculous. If these projects are truly important than donate some time and move them over yourself. To demand that google invest time and resources into the migration of these migrations or to keeping this running forever is just silly. Hell tools like https://…
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> I work on Google Code, and we will be putting a service in place to redirect deep links to project homepages, issues, etc. to their new locations. And this is an opt in service, nothing is automated. They could ,AT LEAST, partner with Github or someone else to have the whole thing automated... Seriously... the really want to put 0 money in that stuff,they don't give a damn. There are seriously good projects that wi…
On what planet is shutting down a service, with months and months of notice, evil? I get it, we all hate Google on HN (for reasons unclear to me) but this is ridiculous. If these projects are truly important than donate some time and move them over yourself. To demand that google invest time and resources into the migration of these migrations or to keeping this running forever is just silly. Hell tools like https://…
The current planet? Open source projects have a lifetime of years so five months is not that long in the scheme of things. People put there code on there and participated (providing Google content that they were able to use and drive traffic) with the expectation that it would be there for the long term.
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Last error report I created (which is consistently causing tab crashes) was marked as duplicate and merged (without comment) into an issue that is private and inaccessible. All attempts to get additional information have been met with silence.
That sounds like it means it's a security issue. All the browsers do this (the ones with open issue trackers, at least)
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Subversion & Mercurial? Then actually just RhodeCode ( https://rhodecode.com ) is the only alternative since it supports Git, Mercurial and Subversion. Disclaimer: I am RhodeCode's co-founder.
Kallithea is partly a fork of our old, legacy version of RhodeCode without all the hard work our engineers spent over the last 12 months in turning an open source project into a real, sophisticated enterprise product. In more than 30,000 engineering hours our team added exclusive Subversion support, 4x better performance and tons of security fixes (all based on enterprise customer feedback), server-side-mergeable pul…
Wow, there is someone really angry and offensive here and not really telling the truth ...
It is sad to see how often forks go downhill if they were purely based on ideologies and not with the user and general good for the project in mind.
But anyway, we welcome and fully support everyone to fork our old GPL versions, the world does not need less but more source code management systems, especially since we lost now one of the key players in Google Code.
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I guess they will be using their own tool to migrate issues: IssueExporterTool "How to export Google Code issue tracker data to other services" https://code.google.com/p/support-tools/wiki/IssueExporterTo...
The problem is that last time I looked at these tools, they all sucked. I migrated code hosting and website for my project to github but left issue tracking on Google Code because the github API doesn't let you do any kind of high fidelity import of issues. I hope GH find a way to do some kind of reasonable issue import soon.
Here is an example of a project we imported from Bugzilla:
https://github.com/translate/pootle/issues?page=47&q=is%3Ais... (all issues below id ~3200 are imported).
Here is the tool I wrote for the occasion:
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> How is this even a failure? Google Code was the best at what it did for several years. Google Code had a few good years, and I am grateful that it happened. However, it did fail to win the software forge battle as the space heated up. It failed to evolve enough to keep up. It failed to keep the mindshare it built in those two initial years as Github and others blew past it over the next six. So call it for what it…
It actually can be considered a success in the style of the original intent of Chrome, Fiber, the Nexus line, and who knows, maybe the upcoming MVNO: to spur innovation and increased investment in a stagnating product area. When Google Code came out Source Forge was horrible, and Github didn't exist. Google Code helped both open source software and the market for code hosting. Now there's a dominant, but so far so gr…
Another way to (very charitably) count Google Code's success is to look at the role it played in Google. One of the largest users of Google Code has always been Google itself. In 2005, Google had released like 8 project tarballs on SF, kind of tentatively. Having Google Code as a home field endorsement allowed that to grow into the thousands. Now, OSS releases seem pretty routine for Google and feel more integrated with the community than ever.