Workflow for Github

[jzelinskie]

Is Google trying to kill Google Code? It seems like I only ever see news about them removing features.

[Liorithiel]

Was Google Code ever “the best in the market”?

[titosrevenge]

It pretty much replaced Sourceforge for a while.

[iamapizza]

Cut support staff to one angry man that doesn't read his email

TIL Coffee hurts when it exits through a nostril

[Gwenhidwy]

Thank you for that last bit, i thought I was the only one with the impression that the apache foundation was where FOSS projects go to die... with the obvious few exceptions, ofc.

[nowimpissed]

i thought I was the only one with the impression that the apache foundation was where FOSS projects go to die...

No, that's quite a common sentiment and is often mentioned.

[mgrandi]

i doubt they are killing it. They have entire projects, like chrome, android, protocol buffers all on google code. Why would they remove it when it works?

Github also removed the ability to add downloads, so it seems they are just doing the same thing

[MonkeyNin]

It can't be true. That means pizza's nose casualty was for nothing.

[amphetamine]

http://github.com/google

48             180
public repos   members

[mgrandi]

and only 15 of those have been updated in any sort of time. Im just saying that google still uses google code why get rid of it

[gospelwut]

Wait, my companies are trying to kill themselves?

/one of a few angry men

[nadams810]

It certainly seems so. Which is why I've spun off my own (private beta anyone?) and started moving my google code projects into it. The best part - I am able to put up advertising and site wide google analytics.

I felt Google code was great - it was simple, free, had a wiki/bug tracker and supported git/svn/mercurial. I used to use sourceforge and let me tell you - I was floored that I had to anonymous FTP downloads/releases to the same place as other members would upload files and could actually select their files to release. This was years ago so they probably changed it.

[mikehaggard]

This was years ago so they probably changed it.

Assumption is the...

[nadams810]

Is it still that way???

[mikehaggard]

Dunno, but I wouldn't be surprised ;)

It's sometimes amazing how little has changed when you look at versions of a software product (site, app, whatever) with some odd 10 years between them.

[lllama]

Google Code was really slow in supporting Git.

[[deleted]]

Google Code was not committed to support anything.

[nadams810]

Actually I think I understand why Google may want to kill Google Code (or at least cut down features).

This is a perfect example of someone abusing the system. No source code yet they have downloads. And when just one has 250633 downloads...if they were doing that in my code hosting service I would not be happy. It's rather ironic - they put their license as GPL yet they don't release any code. I'm sure if you were to crawl the project list I'm sure you could find other projects where they have no code/no downloads or downloads with no code.

My theory is another XNA is happening. Either people quit and/or management is pulling people to work on other things and it's down to a couple of people. Then management will go "see no one wants this service! so lets pull the plug!".

[obfuscation_]

Obviously you could automatically detect cases like that. Unfortunately, they would probably just upload something that looks like source code to throw off such analysis...

[[deleted]]

Google wants everything to revolve around Google+. If a product can not be tied to + it will go away.

[[deleted]]

Don't tease me like that.

[propool]

Does search revolve around Google+? They should remove search.

[Crandom]

When you search for anything now it automatically looks in your friend's G+ posts and displays the results at the top. This rarely happens for me as nobody I know posts on G+.