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It 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

It 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 ago
No, we're deeply committed to continuing to release projects on Github.
- aesthetics1 10y ago
  That'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 ago
    Yes 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 ago
      Please make the UI default to the card layout and not the floating circles.
- deleted 10y ago
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Ajedi32 10y ago
Looks 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 ago
It 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 ago
  Except 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 ago
    the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      I agree. The bubble UI is cutesy but otherwise completely useless. I'd say they should drop it altogether, and stick to the list UI as default.
      - euyyn 10y ago
        I could be improved by just not being constantly moving so you lose track of what you've explored and what you still haven't.
  - DannyBee 10y ago
    Well, 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

cdibona 10y ago

No, we're deeply committed to continuing to release projects on Github.

aesthetics1 10y ago
That'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 ago
  Yes 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 ago
    Please make the UI default to the card layout and not the floating circles.
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Ajedi32 10y ago

Looks 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 ago

It 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 ago
Except 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 ago
  the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    I agree. The bubble UI is cutesy but otherwise completely useless. I'd say they should drop it altogether, and stick to the list UI as default.
    - euyyn 10y ago
      I could be improved by just not being constantly moving so you lose track of what you've explored and what you still haven't.
- DannyBee 10y ago
  Well, 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