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A new home for Google Open Source
- whyagaindavid 10y agoSeems a nice template. Can I get fork it somewhere?
- aesthetics1 10y agoIt looks like some of these projects repos link to GitHub, while others are hosted on this new platform. Is this a signal that Google is moving away from GitHub, or something else entirely? Edit: Ah, here's the relevant blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-google-open-source.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-goo...
- cdibona 10y agoNo, we're deeply committed to continuing to release projects on Github.
- aesthetics1 10y agoThat's great. Is this site more of a resource for Googlers, and for outsiders to understand the process? A lot of the information I'm reading seems to suggest that.
- cdibona 10y agoYes to both. Googlers start as not-googlers, after all.. There's a lot of reasons to do this that go beyond recruiting not the least of which was our old site was getting super crufty..
- bitmapbrother 10y agoPlease make the UI default to the card layout and not the floating circles.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- Ajedi32 10y agoLooks like they've got a whole section in their docs on how they use GitHub at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/github/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/github/
- ktta 10y agoIt just looks like a one-stop shop to increase discoverability of all of google's opensource project, including the ones not hosted on github, like ganeti[1]. Which is hosted on Google's own infra[2] [1]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti [2]: http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary
- chikei 10y agoExcept that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.
- gordon_freeman 10y agothe circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.
- DannyBee 10y agoWell, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.
- mikecb 10y ago
- yueq 10y agoWebsite is beautiful. But actually not useful. It's better for programmers just browsing on GitHub.
- lnanek2 10y agoYeah, I immediately followed a bunch of links and found GitHub at the end and thought I could just ignore the new site. Some comments here claim not all the projects are on GitHub, though, some are hosted directly by Google. So maybe there's something else you could find on this new site and not find there.
- willnorris 10y agoThe other problem is that we have 100+ GitHub organizations, so browsing them all together is impossible.
- jeffwilcox 10y ago+100
- sigsergv 10y ago2 years max.
- apetresc 10y agoWhat's 2 years max? Google's contributions to open-source? They've been doing it for a decade now.
- tekknolagi 10y agoI think parent is referring to the longevity of this "new home", given Google's tendency to cancel things.
- milesward 10y agoyawn
- apetresc 10y agoI don't think anyone in this thread has actually opened the link. This "new home" isn't some sort of platform like Google Code, it's just a website that lists all of Google's open source projects (mainly on GitHub). Everyone's talking about it like it's supposed to be some sort of GitHub competitor that can be 'abandoned'.
- saurik 10y agoI don't see why you feel like this website is something that Google can't abandon. Hell: I swear I remember Google already having a page like this six or seven years ago... I'd imagine this page will slowly become less and less maintained, with both layout rot and failing to include some new projects, until it eventually gets scrapped or replaced (with a new URL, and likely no redirect).
- zimmund 10y agoWhat they are saying is that eventually this site will be removed because Google is constantly killing their own projects after a couple of years.
- Ajedi32 10y agoThere's some really interesting tidbits in the docs section. For example, apparently AGPL licensed projects can't be used at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
- DannyB2 10y agoThat is not one bit surprising considering that Google does everything online. Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to remain under those particular licenses.
- DannyBee 10y agoErrr,it's completely and totally unrelated to that. It's because we have tons of temps, vendors, and contractors, and don't want to have to owe them source code to internal systems. The other alternative (remember that google is a monorepo) would be to somehow police them differently. That is literally not worth the cost.
- DannyBThree 10y agoI don't see how having "some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary" is "completely and totally unrelated to" "not want[ing] to have to owe [someone/anyone] source code to internal systems"?
- euyyn 10y agoWhat's going on with the names of you all?
- DannyBeesThree 10y agoWe have no idea what you're talking about
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- frik 10y agoList of all projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured?page=6 https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured?page=6 ("page=6" means no 6x clicking "Show more", then it loads the whole page - interesting)
- DannyBee 10y agoThat's actually not all of them. Just the featured ones :) That's why the url has featured in it.
- wocram 10y agoThe docs are an interesting peek into google's internal stuff :)
- gtirloni 10y agoThis actually explains what's new about this: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-google-open-source.html?m=1 https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-goo...
- Proven 10y agoNice announcement! Now get smart and move that to a proper web site such as Github.com
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- mshenfield 10y agoMade with Angular, seems pretty snappy.
- boxingdog 10y agoaaaaaaand it's abandoned
- tomschlick 10y agoWhy didn't they use their new .google TLD for this?
- dluc 10y agothe search filter seems to have some hard coded logic, preferring languages like R (4 projects [1]) over Scala (5 projects [2]). I wonder if that's based on trends or purely taste (or just cache :-)). [1] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=r [2] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=scala
- kilotaras 10y agoMaybe it has something to do with actual amount of scala code. E.g. github reports bazel as 90%+ java.
- epynonymous 10y agohere we go again, at some point google "deprecated" code.google.com which was great for developers in china because of the gfw. now they're going back to a google source control service, this means that i have to develop with a vpn which is a simple pain in the ass.
- epynonymous 10y agogoogle hipsters downvoted me
- profalseidol 10y agoHow about Free Software?
- DannyBeesThree 10y agoSince you offered, yes. Thanks.
- whocanfly 10y agoAt first glance, project explorer's circular is not intuitive. My first reaction was to switch to the grid view. Perhaps, they should make the grid view as default.
- stuaxo 10y agoI find it hard not to be cynical when google launches new sites now, will it still be there in 3-5 years ?
- AndreyKarpov 10y agoWell, now PVS-Studio has more code to check and to entertain the readers with reports. :) About the analysis of various open source projects by PVS-Studio Team: https://www.viva64.com/en/inspections/ https://www.viva64.com/en/inspections/