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Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by apetresc »

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.

I don't think anyone in this thread has actually opened the link. This "new home" isn't some sort of platform like Google Code, it's just a website that lists all of Google's open source projects (mainly on GitHub). Everyone's talking about it like it's supposed to be some sort of GitHub competitor that can be 'abandoned'.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by DannyBee »

frik wrote: post #19

List of all projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured?page=6 ("page=6" means no 6x clicking "Show more", then it loads the whole page - interesting)

That's actually not all of them. Just the featured ones :) That's why the url has featured in it.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by DannyBee »

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.

Well, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by DannyBee »

DannyB2 wrote: post #13
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.

Errr,it's completely and totally unrelated to that. It's because we have tons of temps, vendors, and contractors, and don't want to have to owe them source code to internal systems. The other alternative (remember that google is a monorepo) would be to somehow police them differently. That is literally not worth the cost.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by lnanek2 »

yueq wrote: post #4

Website is beautiful. But actually not useful. It's better for programmers just browsing on GitHub.

Yeah, I immediately followed a bunch of links and found GitHub at the end and thought I could just ignore the new site. Some comments here claim not all the projects are on GitHub, though, some are hosted directly by Google. So maybe there's something else you could find on this new site and not find there.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by willnorris »

lnanek2 wrote: post #28
yueq wrote: post #4

Website is beautiful. But actually not useful. It's better for programmers just browsing on GitHub.

Yeah, I immediately followed a bunch of links and found GitHub at the end and thought I could just ignore the new site. Some comments here claim not all the projects are on GitHub, though, some are hosted directly by Google. So maybe there's something else you could find on this new site and not find there.

The other problem is that we have 100+ GitHub organizations, so browsing them all together is impossible.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by bitmapbrother »

cdibona wrote: post #7
aesthetics1 wrote: post #6

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That's great. Is this site more of a resource for Googlers, and for outsiders to understand the process? A lot of the information I'm reading seems to suggest that.

Yes to both. Googlers start as not-googlers, after all.. There's a lot of reasons to do this that go beyond recruiting not the least of which was our old site was getting super crufty..

Please make the UI default to the card layout and not the floating circles.
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