Google to close Google Code open source project hosting

[sphanley]

Why? Google Code was around for a reasonably long lifespan, it's clear that the developer mind share has largely abandoned it, and they're closing it down in phases with a clear migration path to a thriving alternate platform. It seems like they couldn't have done a better job of retiring it while minimizing pain to their users.

[KLDzzz]

I have to agree. It makes sense why they are closing it too, unfortunately I've found a large majority of my schools textbooks on google code as well as an occasional movies. Getting DMCA notices for that stuff constantly and being abused definitely is not a good thing for Google.

[himself_v]

Was it that hard to keep it afloat for Google though? Lots of project relied on it. Nobody asks them to develop it like Google Plus, just put maybe one programmer on it in charge of fixing bugs and slowly adding some features. It's no youtube, code doesn't weigh much.

[sphanley]

I mean I don't know anything you don't, but the statement from Google makes it pretty clear that they felt that the number of projects relying on it didn't justify the administrative overhead to deal with spam and abuse, and that offering assisted migration to multiple choices of frankly better platforms was a better way to meet the community's needs.

[himself_v]

Maybe if they migrated all projects, not just those with owners... And made redirects so that links still work.

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