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It wasn't all that long ago that Google shut down Google Code. They said: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html https://opensou

It wasn't all that long ago that Google shut down Google Code. They said: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google... > After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has become clear to us that the service simply isn’t needed anymore. And now they've created a new product which does pretty much the same thing... Wonder how long this one will last.

wstrange 8y ago
AFAIK, GSR is really intended to support cloud deployment. So not a replacement for Google code. I think the assumption is that most folks will use github / gitlab , etc. as their primary, and mirror to GSR for deployment.
ImJasonH 8y ago
I disagree that CSR serves the same purpose as code.google.com, and is likely to meet a similar end. code.google.com hosted public repos, issues, wiki, downloads, etc., and was generally just ripe for abuse. Google created it largely because Sourceforge was the only thing that existed at the time, and it wasn't doing a great job. Today there's GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and more. CSR is primarily for hosting private code, shared among teams, and adding integrations with other Cloud services, in the Cloud Console. It also adds code search, which is pretty great. Hosting private repos, it's much less easily abused (it's not impossible). There are plenty of private repo hosts, and this one aims to be the one best integrated with GCP. It has, I think, a much better business reason to continue existing. It might not make money (I legitimately do not know) but it helps drive GCP adoption/usage, unlike code.google.com which didn't. Disclosure: I worked on code.google.com, and helped turn it down, and helped create CSR from its ashes. I don't work on either anymore.
- gnahckire 8y ago
  > It might not make money (I legitimately do not know) but it helps drive GCP adoption/usage, unlike code.google.com which didn't. Understandable considering that AWS has codecommit and MSFT owns github now.
- dvlsg 8y ago
  Proper code search could be a pretty killer feature on its own. Half the time I need to find something on github I just clone the repo and search from my own computer.
  - tyingq 8y ago
    Heh, yes. Github's search is case insensitive and ignores sigils, braces, etc.
    - sanderjd 8y ago
      I've been waiting years for GitHub to put some real effort into code search and cross-linking. I had given up on it, but I suspect this will be a high priority for Microsoft.
  - manigandham 8y ago
    Try https://sourcegraph.com/ https://sourcegraph.com/ You can use their public search UI or install the extension.
- giovannibonetti 8y ago
  Hi, Jason! Thank you for the awesome work with Cloud Build :)
user5994461 8y ago
Well, there was at least one legitimate reason to shut it down. It was used to host malware/phishing disguised as official google software under the official umbrella of google.com. What could go wrong with downloading chromebeta from google itself? That being said, the tool to migrate to GitHub worked well. It was an easy migration.
- scarface74 8y ago
  Well that was better than SourceForge. SourceForge actively added crapware to open source code.

wstrange 8y ago

AFAIK, GSR is really intended to support cloud deployment. So not a replacement for Google code. I think the assumption is that most folks will use github / gitlab , etc. as their primary, and mirror to GSR for deployment.

ImJasonH 8y ago

I disagree that CSR serves the same purpose as code.google.com, and is likely to meet a similar end. code.google.com hosted public repos, issues, wiki, downloads, etc., and was generally just ripe for abuse. Google created it largely because Sourceforge was the only thing that existed at the time, and it wasn't doing a great job. Today there's GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and more. CSR is primarily for hosting private code, shared among teams, and adding integrations with other Cloud services, in the Cloud Console. It also adds code search, which is pretty great. Hosting private repos, it's much less easily abused (it's not impossible). There are plenty of private repo hosts, and this one aims to be the one best integrated with GCP. It has, I think, a much better business reason to continue existing. It might not make money (I legitimately do not know) but it helps drive GCP adoption/usage, unlike code.google.com which didn't. Disclosure: I worked on code.google.com, and helped turn it down, and helped create CSR from its ashes. I don't work on either anymore.

gnahckire 8y ago
> It might not make money (I legitimately do not know) but it helps drive GCP adoption/usage, unlike code.google.com which didn't. Understandable considering that AWS has codecommit and MSFT owns github now.
dvlsg 8y ago
Proper code search could be a pretty killer feature on its own. Half the time I need to find something on github I just clone the repo and search from my own computer.
- tyingq 8y ago
  Heh, yes. Github's search is case insensitive and ignores sigils, braces, etc.
  - sanderjd 8y ago
    I've been waiting years for GitHub to put some real effort into code search and cross-linking. I had given up on it, but I suspect this will be a high priority for Microsoft.
- manigandham 8y ago
  Try https://sourcegraph.com/ https://sourcegraph.com/ You can use their public search UI or install the extension.
giovannibonetti 8y ago
Hi, Jason! Thank you for the awesome work with Cloud Build :)

user5994461 8y ago

Well, there was at least one legitimate reason to shut it down. It was used to host malware/phishing disguised as official google software under the official umbrella of google.com. What could go wrong with downloading chromebeta from google itself? That being said, the tool to migrate to GitHub worked well. It was an easy migration.

scarface74 8y ago
Well that was better than SourceForge. SourceForge actively added crapware to open source code.