Bidding farewell to Google Code
When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety of better project hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket bloom. Many projects moved away from Google Code to those other systems. To meet developers where they are, we ourselves migrated nearly a thousand of our own open source projects from Google Code to GitHub.
As developers migrated away from Google Code, a growing share of the remaining projects were spam or abuse. Lately, the administrative load has consisted almost exclusively of abuse management. After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has become clear to us that the service simply isn’t needed anymore.
Beginning today, we have disabled new project creation on Google Code. We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on January 25th, 2016. Below, we provide links to migration tools designed to help you move your projects off of Google Code. We will also make ourselves available over the next three months to those projects that need help migrating from Google Code to other hosts.
- March 12, 2015 - New project creation disabled.
- August 24, 2015 - The site goes read-only. You can still checkout/view project source, issues, and wikis.
- January 25, 2016 - The project hosting service is closed. You will be able to download a tarball of project source, issues, and wikis. These tarballs will be available throughout the rest of 2016.
Google will continue to provide Git and Gerrit hosting for certain projects like Android and Chrome. We will also continue maintaining our mirrors of projects like Eclipse, kernel.org and others.
How To Migrate Your Data Off Google Code
The simplest way to migrate off of Google Code is to use the Google Code to GitHub exporter tool, which provides an automated way to migrate a project’s source, issues, and wikis to a new GitHub repo. Please note: GitHub’s importer will convert any Subversion or Mercurial Google Code projects to use Git in the process.
We also offer stand-alone tools for migrating to GitHub and Bitbucket, and SourceForge offers a Google Code project importer service.
If you encounter any problems using these tools, please log issues with us, contact [email protected], or email me directly ([email protected]). We’ll also be closely tracking Hacker News, Reddit, and other popular forums to answer questions in public. We know this decision will cause some pain for those of you still using Google Code and we're sorry for that. We'll continue to do our best to make the migration process easy for you.
GitHub and Bitbucket are both looking forward to working with developers moving off of Google Code. They’ve been great to work with leading up to this announcement, so we’d like to thank those sites for their continued support of the community. There are some great options for people today that didn’t exist in 2006, and we look forward to helping you find the one that works for your project.
Chris DiBona, Director of Open Source
What will happen to things that are hosted on google code, like jquery and the google font set? Thousand, if not millions of pages link to these directly - will they all be invalidated?
ReplyDeleteThis is just awful, there are millions of blogger blogs with templates/widgets that host their .js files mainly on Google Code
DeleteMost of Google Code file are relatevely small, Google has more than enought resources to handle and keep Google Code files, just keep the file that are already there and deny new uploads
Just migrate your projects, if those thousands of projects had caring and concerned developers, they'd be moved to a different service. They won't be invalidated until the end of 2016. Google Code isn't a warehouse, that's what Drive is for.
DeleteThat's the Google CDN, which is an entirely different thing than Google Code. So no worries, it'll all still work.
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ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI 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.
Projects on Google Code will need to set the "project moved" flag, under the advanced tab of the project. But once set, things should work like you expect.
See:
https://code.google.com/p/support-tools/wiki/GitHubExporterFAQ#Setting_the_"Project_Moved"_Flag
JQuery and google fonts aren't hosted on google code, they are hosted at googleapis.com, which I believe is part of google developers, not google code
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be more responsible for Google to just host the projects that don't move over indefinitely in a read only mode? I can't imagine that it's resource intensive and it'd instill more faith in Google products. It's like watching Geocities go away.
ReplyDelete@Lane Campbell
ReplyDeleteI guess the fear is that leaving it online in read-only, is that it wont completely remove the administrative burden. Will still be occasional problems to remove abusive.
But it does seem that there will be some real gems lost. True the 'big' important projects will all migrate. But there almost certainly be a small number of projects what will be lost. The sort with only one original maintainer. Maybe even where that maintainer has passed away, or otherwise just gone 'offline'.
Abuse how? Archive projects are read only. One can't add new issues, one can't comment on existing issues, they're just stuck. Leaving the site read-only seems better than allowing useful, not broken but abandoned projects to die.
DeleteGoogle I hope someday you close your search engine and company at all.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Google Cemetery.
Perhaps migrate a few you care about yourself? Especially if they appear abandoned.
ReplyDelete@barryhunter I'm sure Google could manage to find project hosted on it's own service that may have been inactive on the development side, but are frequently accessed. Would it really be a problem to identify such projects ... I mean it's a simple search problem and this is Google ...
ReplyDelete@Christoph
ReplyDeleteI would think it the INfrequently accessed ones that are more at risk.
The highly used ones, someone probably has a copy somewhere, so wont be lost forever. Or maybe someone will click the 'transfer to Github' (it seems to appear even if not the owner of the project)
hey google, could you folks please post a list of old google code things that are abandoned? or just copy everything to github straight up? there are so many old things that will be lost, you are destroying an archive of history :(
ReplyDeleteCould this project, in it's read-only state, perhaps be handed over to archive.org for posterity?
ReplyDeleteThe comment about Google Cemetery makes me sick. Snide remarks don't belong here. Google Code has been a great contribution to the Free Software. Google should be thanked for that.
ReplyDelete+1 Jonas.
ReplyDeletearchive.org would likely be happy to host the tarballs in perpetuity.
What a huge PITA. I have a number of active projects on Google Code. I really love the interface. It has truly been a fantastic service. Also, it supports SVN; which is one of the easiest to use source control systems.
ReplyDeleteNow I gotta move everything over to GitHub, which has a really awful interface. What a giant PITA.
Who forces you to use GitHub? You could still use SVN (SourceForge, Assembla, ...).
DeleteHere's a great suggestion. Make it a paid service. Wouldn't that get rid of 99% of the spam and abuse right there? I would *gladly* pay a reasonable annual fee to keep my projects there!
ReplyDeletePlease reconsider this decision.
Shame that code hosted on behalf of now dead people will be lost forever.
ReplyDeleteDo NOT use the "Project moved" flag! It goes via a redirect to another page, and the final link is rel=nofollow. Your project *will* disappear completely from SERPs.
ReplyDeleteI was really happy to find the flag, but I had to unset it and stick with a simple message, so that the users can actually get to the new location when they search for it.
@barryhunter: How does leaving it read-only present anything other than a negligible administrative burden for a company like google?
ReplyDelete+1 for letting archive.org have a go at this if google won't.
What will happen to files in the "Downloads" tab when migrating?
ReplyDeleteI develop scientific software and often used the downloads feature to
provide users with project-related data, e.g., pre-computed results
for specific inputs.
I am not aware of anything similar offered by GitHub. (Yes, I can make
a "downloads" branch and host data there, but there would be nothing
in GitHub's interface to guide users to that place...)
Look at GitLab + Git-Annex
Deletehttps://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/17/gitlab-annex-solves-the-problem-of-versioning-large-binaries-with-git/
Rats, Github is not the right replacement!
ReplyDelete1) Git is a disaster. Using git has cost me to loose many files. Mercurial is much better.
Don't ever tell me git and mercurial are similar: One causes me to loose my files, the other works flawless.
2) Github is an unfortunate mixture of providing git support, providing free hosting, and providing for-pay hosting.
You could use Source Forge, Bitbucket, or Freecode, for example. Github isn't the only alternative. And the others offer mercurial and subversion support.
Delete@Dominykas, we used to have hrel=nofollow to prevent people from creating spam projects just for the search boost. Now that we've disabled project creation, we can remove it. I'll roll out a release later today to do just that.
ReplyDeleteThere are projects on Google Code that are no longer maintained by the creator, yet are of incredible value.
ReplyDeleteA clear example would be supplement code published by a researcher alongside with publication in a scientific journal.
thank
DeleteHow do you UNSET the project moved flag? The github migrator never completes after a move and the project is left in an invalid state. The migrator also fails to migrate images in the wiki. When clicking the "publish project" button, it simple 404s the webiste.
ReplyDelete@John Ratcliff (and others that love SVN instead of Git) -
ReplyDeleteGitHub offers an SVN interface as well.
https://help.github.com/articles/support-for-subversion-clients/
On Hacker News Chris DiBona mentions "I heartily recommend people look at Gitlab". We welcome anyone to start using our free hosting for public and private git repos on GitLab.com
ReplyDeleteIf that can be of help, here's a small python script to convert google code wiki to github markdown:
ReplyDeletehttps://github.com/ArcBees/arcbees-tools/tree/master/googlecode_wiki_to_github_markdown
Enjoy!
Also mention that Sourceforge has a Google Code importer.
ReplyDelete@μ:
ReplyDeleteYou can use the Releases feature on GitHub, which allows you to upload arbitrary files.
@Chris:
Unless you recklessly play with dangerous tools like rebase, filter-branch, or reset --hard, you should never "lose" any files. Git keeps every commit you make (even the ones you "modify") until garbage collection, so recovering data is always possible.
I copied my project to github last year, but i didnt like the way git works... now i dont know what to do :'(
ReplyDeleteI'm all in with John Ratcliff suggestion: Make it a paid service.
ReplyDeleteShame :(
ReplyDeleteI have a 'download count' script for my project which scrapes the Google Code project page, shame to lose that count
:(
ReplyDeletewhat happen ???
ReplyDeleteDear All,
ReplyDeleteI have been using google code since 2009 and its my favourite. I mainly used for uploading my code. I feel that google code should be continued as it was eariler.
-Krishnan
Every now and then we lost some projects as their maintainers no longer care about them (when Microsoft shut down GotDotNet many bits are gone for ever).
ReplyDeleteIs there any procedure for non-administrators of a Google Code project to migrate the Wiki and Issues to GitHub? Without that we probably will see many being lost in 2016 (except the source code though).
A complete copy of all projects should be handed over to archive.org so that we don't lose history and important projects that are no longer maintained.
ReplyDelete@fylwind Many thanks for the suggestion! Will the exporter tool automatically move Google Code "downloads" to GitHub "releases", or do I have to do it myself?
ReplyDeleteGoogle, you guys have enough money to spend it on supporting free software projects. It is not fair.
ReplyDeleteLooks like marketing people take power over engeneers. Therefore google will die soon.
Not a big problem to relocate the code, but it will be hard to rework wiki pages to adopt to another hosting. In my project I'm extensively using ability to generate and commit wiki via svn folder.
@Fylwind Many thanks for the suggestion! Will the exporter tool automatically convert Google Code Dowloads to GitHub Releases, or do I have to do it myself?
ReplyDeleteUh huh. No surprise really. Orkut, iGoogle, Glass, Notebook (just to name a few) and now Code. What's going next, I wonder.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
ReplyDeleteWill the "Issues" part of Code go away too? It is used for tracking bugs of lots of Google products like Android and the various GAPIs.
ReplyDeleteThank you for providing this great service for the open source community over the years. It does make sense to me to spend your resources elsewhere, and I've always loved how Google is ready to embrace competitors when they simply provide a better service, such as hosting your own projects on GitHub.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will take consideration to the issue raised here about small, unmaintained projects. Every now and then, I will stumble upon a tiny repository that does *just* what I need, or is just curious and interesting. The author might have lost interest, moved to a small island without Internet access, even died. Nobody might care about that project until february 2016, when suddenly it's just what someone needs.
Please try to find a solution for this!
Thanks, Simon
Weard request. Can I/we get the codebase for Google Code? There's something we want to do with it.
ReplyDeletethanks a billion for your years of code hosting on relatively secure servers. that said, github security has failed to impress, although nothing is perfect.
ReplyDeleteThis will affect the javascripts, that uploaded to Google Drive?
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to donate a dump of all projects to Internet Archive (archive.org), don't you think? Please Google? :)
ReplyDeleteFor a simple transfer I wrote a small shell script. Especially if you have several Google Code repository , it is a real time saver.
ReplyDeletehttps://github.com/msoftware/google-code-to-github
Add your github credentials, run the script and the rest will happen automatically.
Hello and Good-Bye GoogleCode,
ReplyDeleteI used to be happy with the combination of the lean interface of googlecode and the ease of use of subversion. Now I am pretty sad that it will be going away!
I have to disagree with google's opinion that there are plenty of good replacements. Using github is much different.
This is especially true in education. I am a professor for computer graphics and used to recommended googlecode to many of my students for its ease of use. I know the advantages of git very well, but in my experience it is much easier to begin with subversion than to start with git in the first programming courses.
I would have wished that a service like googlecode would have the option to continue its life in a different setting. Maybe as free service to students or being hosted as a copy on a university server.
How about that? Are there options to clone googlecode for personal or educational use?
But what strikes me most is the irresponsibility of Google to just let some valuable projects die and shrug the shoulders about. Even if most new projects are just abuse, there are still projects around that are actively used.
I would like to thank Google a lot for providing support in the past, but shutting google code down to reduce the maintenance cost is irresponsible to those serious developers who have sticked with it for years and surrender to the ill-minded.
What if github would be saying it is also closing down because of abuse?
Anyway, maybe it is just time to move on. One the other hand, would it be so difficult to continue hosting some existing projects that kindly ask for it? I cannot think of this being a major maintenance scenario, since google code will continue hosting some dedicated existing projects anyway.
How about that?
PLease please please - turn it into a paid for (subscription) service. I have 10 open source Add-ons on your services and I would gladly pay if I could avoid the pain of migration.
ReplyDeleteI do not like Hg and using TortoisSVN under Windows this was really the lowest friction for me as I very frequently churn out new builds / prereleases.
Google should at least provide an automatic redirect to the new project page so already made links on the web will automatically point to the new hosting (i.e. to github, sourceforge etc..)
ReplyDeleteGoogle should at least provide an automatic redirect to the new project page so already made links on the web will automatically point to the new hosting (i.e. to github, sourceforge etc..)
ReplyDeleteAll the Mercurial friends of you should have a look at https://bitbucket.org/features. They provide Mercurial besides Git.
ReplyDeleteAny feedback on the exporter tool ? I launched it on my 2 projects and they both stay stucked on 0% for 2 hours ... Will it work in the end or should I do something ?
ReplyDeleteIts said to know that.
ReplyDeleteHowever its correct that GitHub has taken lead over any other Social Coding Hosting Websites.
I have many projects hosted on google code :( including mime-type files. Unfortunately github only support 1 gb.
ReplyDeleteSincerely
Sam
I'm very disappointed to hear this news, GoogleCode was a good stable repository for projects.
ReplyDeleteI don't like GitHub, but I do like SourceForge, so I guess I'll be moving over to there because they still support SVN repositories.
As someone said, it's like Geocities all over again :(
And yes, SourceForge has a great googlecode project import function that works really well, and is simple to use. Perhaps you could point this out to people more prominently as an alternative to GitHub...?
As posters above me mentioned, this will have profound geocities effect. It would be nice of google to just provide .tar.gz of latest trunk and point links there indefinitely.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, at least give us a index.txt of all project names, so archive teams can get started without missing anything.
I loved the simplicity and ease of use of GC, especially for small, single developer projects. Both Github/BB inundate you with useless crap.
ReplyDeletesomeone HAS to get all the source there and move somewhere, there are a lot of useful projects and even useful legacy code hosted there and it will all be lost?
ReplyDeleteI know the service has been great , but a lot of code and information will be lost! Maybe as the above coments, the whole codebase should be handed over to archive.org or even github?
How do we get attachments to issues? Github doesn't allow attachments and when I use Takeout any attachments are not included.
ReplyDeleteAlso, can you unset the "Project Moved" option? Or, even if it is already set is there a way to retrieve attachments to issues?
I really wish Google would quit creating and then killing projects and applications people use and love. Whats next on the hitless, Google Plus?
ReplyDeleteI think Google is one of the best companies ever. You always seem to be genuinely working for humanity, as opposed to trying to make money no matter what. The people who dislike Google seem to be scared of the fact that Google is such a large part of their lives, but really - without Google your lives would not be a good as it is now. And if ANYONE can be trusted with all this "power" then its them over any other company. And no, I don't work for Google (although asked me a few times).
ReplyDeleteBye Bye Google Code, you will be remember as pioneers of open source hosting. Github rocks!!
ReplyDeleteThanks
Javin
It was an excellent service.
ReplyDeleteIt should be kept at least as a payed service.
I'm not a Git fun, and now we are forced to embrace it.
Thanks Google Code, you have served us well.
ReplyDeleteNow, we are waiting for Code+ ;-)
I personally don't see a good Google project since Eric was the CEO, everything now just gets closed. Where are the innovations that we were used to ? =/
ReplyDeleteWord of advice. ... stay in your circle and stick to what you know
Delete@Pavel Roskin
ReplyDeleteActually Google Cemetery
is extremely appropriate.
Google used to have Good products
but now they either change them until they are garbage and run them into the ground or shut them down.
I cannot believe they are shutting down Google code. There are still many many products using it.
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ReplyDeleteHi. I've moved to GitHub using the "Export" button but where are the Wiki pages that were claimed to also be moved? I have a whole User Guide that would need to be ported too...
ReplyDeleteCan you please speak to the question of what the costs are once the site goes read-only? There's traffic, but it can be heavily cached (being read-only). You could also redirect every project-specific URL to a single per-project page offering a tarball, or even a torrent of a tarball.
ReplyDeleteHey, how big would a torrent of *all* the project tarballs be? Offload some traffic and allow others to be the archive.
In other words, please be less of a geocities.
This is a very bad decision, Google Code should never die...
ReplyDeleteI think the abuse comes from the ability to upload files up to 200 Mb and allowing hotlinks at same time
The max filesize should be decreased to 100 or 50 Mb
And Google Code should have some moderation in order to tackle accounts that are abusing and using Google Code as a filehost and spliting .rar files at 200Mb
The lack of moderation is the issue, Google Code should be only used for code files and projects
Many projects on Google code are no more maintained, but sill interesting and working well.
ReplyDeleteWe will lost a lot of precious resources. You are killing thousands of open source projects. Shame on you.
I just did the migration to github, after considering my options since the announcement. I never would have switched, but I felt forced to move my project to somewhere else that wasn't being shut down. They never asked for opinions from users, to see if it was still a valuable service that was preferred over github. They just went with their own "metrics" as usual. Just another case of "Google knows best without asking". They managed to e-mail every user a link to this blog post, but sending an e-mail asking for feedback beforehand was apparently impossible. This is not just the closing of Google Code; it's another lesson to not depend on Google.
ReplyDelete@Sverre Rabbelier thanks! Will try again, although the "Project moved" page could also have a link rel=canonical to the new location, so that Googlebot actually picks up the new location better... or ping your search guys internally to fix this :)
ReplyDeleteOh, my project.
ReplyDeleteGithub is not the right replacement
An old list of previously killed Google services. I suppose it could do with an update.
ReplyDeletehttp://mashable.com/2013/06/30/axed-by-google/
I can't understand why the existing Google code projects can't be hosted in read only mode. Would that really be too expensive for Google?
ReplyDeleteGiven Google's pattern of starting up and then suddenly shutting down projects, I find it harder and harder to adopt Google anything.
https://sites.google.com/ is still updatable, so I think it's not impacted by Google Code.
ReplyDeleteHere is a migration tool for the issue tracker from Google Code to GitLab:
ReplyDeletehttps://gitlab.com/o9000/google-code-to-gitlab
Example:
From https://code.google.com/p/tint2/issues
To https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/issues
good riddance, google code.
ReplyDeleteOh my god I know hundreds of Ppl with blogs for Second Life...self included. They...and me are not going to understand this or pay for it. I don't know what I'll do with a blog from 09 that was easy and free. I'm crying. This is scary. Are they going to get rid of Picasa? I use that to find 160,00 images. It's the best program to search images. I'm freakingout.. but
ReplyDeleteGoogle fonts, wiki's, pages with .js, widgets, wiki's, features that google sites uses. Will a list be forthcoming soon (this month) of all features that will be affected? How soon?
ReplyDeleteYeah all of my javascript is saved here, what will happen if i doesn't migrate all files?
ReplyDeletei'ts negative idea.
ReplyDeletei think, administrator from google code is fail or wrong move.
HOW THANKS bro ther google
ReplyDeletein my experience GitHub's trackers an wiki are much less functional than what have Google Code or SF.
ReplyDeleteFor example it is next to impossible to commit a ticket to GitHub quoting pieces of XML/HTML
Guys, don't close google code. It's an awesome website. Just maintain it for the sake of giving alternatives to people who wants to learn or share. Of course there are other websites that offers similar services, but variety is strength. Your service has been useful to myself quite often and i'm pretty sure a lot of people really likes it too. MAybe could you consider to join forces with other websites, but a total shut down is really disappointing. Seriously people, your services are all awesome... Maybe you could archive and depreciate some services but shutting them like that is really counter-productive!
ReplyDeleteClosing the service because it's not productive anymore is understandable for a private company.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Google should at least offer the full archive of all projects to an internet archiving organization such as archive.org, and/or provide a public torrent so that everyone can download the projects. Else, lots of very interesting and irreplaceable projects will be lost, such as code supplements of research papers.
Please Google, act in a rational and responsible way. I really do hope you care enough to transfert the projects to someone else... I'd hate to see Google not caring about what becomes of such a giant library of human knowledge...
So where are the Google coding style guides going after the shutdown?
ReplyDeleteGoogle code was getting old, Just compare the UI to the other services (like Google dirve) and you will find a large difference. Also they disabled downloads due to abuse.
ReplyDeleteI'm just worried about all the projects on Google Code that are inactive, what is going to happen to them?
Google created a coding resource which they advertised for community use. People believed in them and invested there time and effort. Now the resource is being deleted which damages the effort. Google code is only a minuscule speck of the google empire, but the damage created by deleting it is is significant to those who have relied on google to help them grow products. Its sort of like ants being stepped on by a giant. The giant doesn't feel a thing... but the ants do.
ReplyDeleteFeel sad i hear it :c
ReplyDeleteWow. It's got to be so incredibly costly for Google to run code hosting. After you all shut down Google Checkout I started to get the idea Google is not to be relied upon. This solidifies that view.
ReplyDeleteThanks for having providing your "vision". I now have great clarity on whether I should bother using your products.
Believe me, after Microsoft did the same with VB6, I learned my lesson there. Nothing I made after that action was entirely Microsoft-dependnet. Only takes so many times before nobody in their right mind will
That's good google given us enough time to move code :D
ReplyDeleteGood part is that, we have enough time for migration :D
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with Google ending the service, after all, it is a free service. The reasoning makes sense to me, I myself have moved my projects to Github. As long as Google keeps supporting Ubuntu Linux, I'm happy.
ReplyDeleteWhy are Google not addressing the issuue of code that was written by people who are now dead?
ReplyDeleteDon't you have any responsibility to saving the code of those people?
I have projects hosted on Google Code that are old and not maintained but are linked in various places. The projects are still in live use and therefore important. It would be awesome if the projects remained at least read-only for forever.
ReplyDeleteMigration is not possible because the owners of the projects are not interested in them, however as a contributor, I am. Also, going from SVN/Mercurial to Git is too much work.
As for the overhead to Google, I think disabling the creation of new projects should be enough.
I'm sad, Github is full of developers that try to sound clever with complex statements for the easiest commands etc. eg ctrl alt del - would turn into a whole page of the complexities and the environment of the keyboard... Plus they continuously repeat each other as I've seen on most forums and one thing I really don't like about a large percentage of inspiring developers (much like myself) is their patriotism - and their inability to read or respond to an enquiry in an easy, straight forward manner.
ReplyDeleteEli the computer Guy is much cooler to listen too, and easier to learn from.
Although I understand Google's reasons for moving forward that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it so Im SAD.
Its' a Bloody shame and a loss for us who love Google, guess I have to get used to Github and the moron geeks over there - but they'll never get used to me - watch this space.
Bugger
I have no worries if Google ending the code hosting services as long as it will not affecting the other services from Google like googleapis.com as well as the access or integration with other Google Products like https://sites.google.com, https://developers.google.com/apps-script/.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for google to donate all of the abandoned google code projects to the internet archive? It would be a way better solutions than so many projects being lost forever.
ReplyDeleteremove?????? dontttttttttttt!!! dont rest it :/
ReplyDeleteWhat will happen to things that are hosted on google code, like jquery and the google font set? Thousand, if not millions of pages link to these directly - will they all be
ReplyDeleteAll Google site open source blogs spot very help fully everyone
ReplyDeleteConsidering the recent adware debacle with Sourceforge, Google should reconsider this decision of shutting down Google code. If anything, the SF fiasco has taught us one thing: relying on one single hosting provider could be catastrophic.
ReplyDeleteSo, we need more competition in the code hosting arena. We need both Google code and Codeplex to stay alive and don't just join the "Lets all migrate to Github" bandwagon. What if Github management does tomorrow what Sourceforge did today? Where will you go then?
Why is google so biased towards github, yeah, why is everybody so biased towards github.
ReplyDeleteGoogle recently removed its message that it is shutting down google code from google code websites. I am getting mixed messages here. Is it still shutting down google code?
ReplyDeleteThe only reason most people are so biased to github is that they gathered a strong critical mass initially by introducing Git - at a time when most others were still using subversion or mercurial.
ReplyDeleteNow however, since all are on git, we should reconsider that decision. Github's interface, though minimal and elegant, is geared towards a developer rather than a casual user. The common Windows user who just wants a big download button to get his favorite FLOSS software still goes to Sourceforge rather than Github.
Although I am not a developer I have an interest in this field. The news is heart wrenching. After reading the post I felt I was losing a piece of myself. I know, although not directly, that a lot of good networking and developments were created from this project. It has been almost a year since I was initially drawn here in an attempt to develop a mobile app and this platform pricked my interest even more... Evermore Thanks GOOGLE and your outlets for the community (domestic and global, well, with increasing networking connectivity we are all a global community...) Thanks Again!
ReplyDeleteGood
ReplyDeleteGoogle is not "not doing evil" anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you release the Google Code sources to open source so that companies could install it internally to manage projects?
ReplyDeletePerfecto
ReplyDeletePlease make projects available as single file downloads including everything — code revision history, wiki pages, issues, issue attachments, etc., and then provide an index of project names so that it will be feasible to download each project's file and upload it to the non profit Internet Archive (https://archive.org/).
ReplyDeleteThank you for an honest reason to stop being. Let us hope that the human race never gets to that point. In the meantime, let Bitbucket and Github have some fun.
ReplyDeleteBitbucket has restrictions on free accounts. SourceForge adds malware to any project that becomes popular. GitHub is run by people obsessed with identity politics who delete any project that offends them.
ReplyDeleteI want to keep using Google Code. It shouldn't be shut down.
Please fix at least your exporting tools by removing a hard limit on the number of issues that can be exported. And if your script removes the original repo after "Export", change the name to Migrate instead, or show some warning before doing anything nasty.
ReplyDeleteI have host some projects at google code but I cannot remember the link to clone them.
ReplyDeleteI would like to ask you about how to see all project I did.
I guess the fear is that leaving it online in read-only, is that it wont completely remove the administrative burden. Will still be occasional problems to remove abusive. Harga Samsung Galaxy
ReplyDeleteGoogle Code, GeoCities, Garbage Collection
ReplyDelete.. I see a theme, what does it all mean?
I think it will be very useful to collect votes for codes/projects to keep,
ReplyDeleteand since google is the search also you can check pages the references google code projects or pages and use it with google ads for warning visitors, so they can save those projects or transfer them, or contacting page post author (how can be the project owner) to move his code,
anyway I think you should keep it read only for at least 3 years
Yahoo, or MSN, take note, you should develop a code hosting site to fill this gap, and use it to drive marketing traffic to your other services like your search engine. Develop a phone platform too, post the source code and create a competitor to the android phone. Google has left a niche open for someone else. Someone should stick their foot in the open door. Microsoft would have never made a marketing blunder like this, they would have bought github and used this service to assist with their marketing dominance. Maybe Apple could move in and develop their own search engine too so they can control more of the internet experience on their iPhones?
ReplyDeletewill i be able to set the 'moved flag' and 'moved link' after the site goes read-only?
ReplyDeleteWell poop. :-/
ReplyDeleteThe lack of response from Google here to the inundation of reasonable questions and suggestions is shocking.
ReplyDeleteGoogle: like it or not, you have a *responsibility* to provide the sources for all projects on Google Code. Unnumbered people have invested unnumbered hours in your project with the expectation that those project would always be accessible to anyone who seeks them out.
It is *imperative* that you either continue providing access to repositories here in read-only mode *or* hand off all the projects and sources to another organization who is willing to host them.
Especially where ghost projects and history are concerned, to make those permanently inaccessible would be a betrayal, it would be BAD FAITH on the part of Google.
good riddance, google code....
ReplyDeleteI have host some projects at google code but I cannot remember the link to clone them.
ReplyDeleteGoogle should at least provide an automatic redirect to the new project page so already made links on the web will automatically point to the new hosting (i.e. to github, sourceforge etc..)
ReplyDeleteThe comment about Google Cemetery makes me sick. Snide remarks don't belong here. Google Code has been a great contribution to the Free Software. Google should be thanked for that.
ReplyDeletePeople, you can move someone else's project to github too.
ReplyDeleteIf you encounter an abandoned project that would be valuable to other people, just move it to your own github account after unsuccessfully trying to contact the developer.
You can save some projects this way maybe.
The comment about Google Cemetery makes me sick. Snide remarks don't belong here. Google Code has been a great contribution to the Free Software. Google should be thanked for that.
ReplyDeletei have google project like Google Project
I have host some projects at google code but I cannot remember the link to clone them.
For us newbies who started and do not stop to study and learning, were not quite really understand what is it all about. how good and what this does on our business. as long as we take good advantage on whatever changes cause you are the management we dont have complain, but we thank you very much and a lot for the help. and GOD Bless our decisions and development for good and better tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteIt's becoming harder and harder to rely on Google's services. Some have taken years to become usable (GMail), others have lasted just a couple of years and then were closed, leaving literally millions of users having to go elsewhere (Google RSS).
ReplyDeleteThis is a very bad news...! I hosted my code since 10 years....
ReplyDeleteWhy Google SVN is failed...???
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