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Re: A new home for Google Open Source

#12

Post by chikei »

ktta wrote: post #10
aesthetics1 wrote: post #3

It looks like some of these projects repos link to GitHub, while others are hosted on this new platform. Is this a signal that Google is moving away from GitHub, or something else entirely? Edit: Ah, here's the relevant blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-goo...

It just looks like a one-stop shop to increase discoverability of all of google's opensource project, including the ones not hosted on github, like ganeti[1]. Which is hosted on Google's own infra[2] [1]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti [2]: http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by DannyB2 »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #11

There's some really interesting tidbits in the docs section. For example, apparently AGPL licensed projects can't be used at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/

That is not one bit surprising considering that Google does everything online.

Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to remain under those particular licenses.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by gordon_freeman »

chikei wrote: post #12
ktta wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It just looks like a one-stop shop to increase discoverability of all of google's opensource project, including the ones not hosted on github, like ganeti[1]. Which is hosted on Google's own infra[2] [1]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti [2]: http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by milesward »

tekknolagi wrote: post #16
apetresc wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's 2 years max? Google's contributions to open-source? They've been doing it for a decade now.

I think parent is referring to the longevity of this "new home", given Google's tendency to cancel things.

yawn

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by TeMPOraL »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #15
chikei wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.

I agree. The bubble UI is cutesy but otherwise completely useless. I'd say they should drop it altogether, and stick to the list UI as default.
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