Guest post by Google has announced the end of its project hosting service.
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.
New project creation is already disabled on March 12. On August 24 the site will go read-only, to be completely shut down by Janury 25, 2016. Project data is promised to be available as tarball download throughout 2016.
JK. I tried it when I tried out their google cloud service, but I’m a slave the the ‘hub. Also, from the tonnes of comments, this did not have much of an impact.
The main concern I see people expressing is that some niche projects by people who have abandoned them (or possibly even died) may not get migrated or backed up by 3rd parties before the deadline.
they’re shutting it down because people weren’t using it AND because google doesn’t care about open source anymore.
people weren’t using it because google stopped working on it because google doesn’t care about open source anymore.
ergo, yet another google service killed because google DGAF. and that’s why nobody should trust google
FWIW it was obvious that the service will be shut down when Google announced that they won’t allow projects placing downloads. Also, their approach to forking and submitting code was always inferior to that of Gihtub, Bitbucket and Sourceforge.
“always” includes 2006
GOOGLE DOE NOT CARE ABOUT OPEN SOURCE!!! (In Kanye West’s voice)
While moving all of their projects to GitHub… Google is not the best at everything, so they kill off things that sucked. Google Code is one of those. Microsoft should also kill off CodePlex.
The reality is that GitHub, Bitbucket and SourceForge are focused on hosting projects in full. Beyond supporting VSS, CodePlex(does it support VSS?) is worthless for Microsoft.
I just exported all my projects to GitHub, I really used to like Google Code website back in the days. At least they created a tool to export everything.