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Bidding farewell to Google Code

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Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code

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Post by sytse »

cdibona wrote: post #106
sytse wrote: post #57

Hi 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 Chris!

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Post by devsaysstuff »

A canary in the mine moment - relying solely on a single third-party for your hosting is always a risk - you are there at their grace, nothing more. Migrate to Github? Hmm... they are becoming the defacto single monopoly platform - and no one seems to notice or care?

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Post by jkoudys »

comex wrote: post #171

Ugh. No, not that Google Code is shutting down, per se. The alternatives are better and for active projects there is plenty of time to migrate. What I object to is that the site will only be preserved in read-only mode for 5 months, despite its popularity and the resulting large number of deep links into it on the Web. Why not forever? git, hg, and I believe svn can all provide read-only access (with some bandwidth o…

Par for the course as far as Google's concerned. This is the one caveat I give all my clients before going ahead with using any google service beyond gmail, since you can easily get the rug yanked out from underneath you. It's not usually the discontinuation of an entire service, but they drop major features from many apps, and give the users as much warning as a Vogon would.

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Post by boyter »

I wonder if there will be a feed for the list of projects currently inside Google Code. I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com

Anyone know if this is possible? Last time I checked it didn't have a public API other then the tracker and I was performing some rather ugly crawling/scraping to get a list of projects.

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Post by sytse »

nadams wrote: post #294

I predicted this a long time ago and I've moved my projects off. I would recommend migrating to self hosting to prevent an issue like this in the future. It's not too much of a hassle if you only have a couple of projects but when you have 10+ migrating to another source code hosting service is a real pain. If you are looking for a good list of what's out there check out this stackexchange post: http://softwarerecs.s…

What are you missing from GitLab Community Edition?

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Post by ta0967 »

sytse wrote: post #234
mlinksva wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That motto links to an excellent explanation https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/ IMO not mentioning competitors and not providing a detailed comparison to competitors means that marketing is winning and the market is failing. Kudos to gitlab for providing info which helps the market work. Opposite of petty! :)

Thanks mlinksva!

i just spotted "GitLab is build to handle very large repositories." there. someone should proof-read it all i guess. :)

Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code

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Post by boyter »

cdibona wrote: post #2

Hi 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 Chris,

Would it be possible to get a list of all the projects inside Google Code? I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com

Codeplex provides this sort of data and GitHub and Bitbucket have an API. I could write a crawler/scraper to do so but I would probably miss something.

Please don't let this become similar to Geocities and have it all lost forever.

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Post by le_lenny_face »

kzhahou wrote: post #152
pdknsk wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://about.gitlab.com/ "Better than GitHub" That's quite a motto.

It makes them sound petty and actually-probably-worse. Just say you're the best git host. Don't mention your competitor. I'm going to go create an account on it now. Good luck, guys!

Spotted the GitHub fanboy.

GitLab is objectively better. They even list their reasons on the page.

If you disagree you could, you know, refute those points instead of dismissing the whole thing in a petty manner.

Re: Bidding farewell to Google Code

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Post by [deleted] »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #153
sytse wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the third link on the homepage, that says "Sign up for GitLab.com with unlimited free (private) repositories and collaborators.". But we're open to suggestions to make it more obvious. It is hard to communicate downloads and a saas.

Ah for whatever reason I didn't see that at all.

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