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Google is still very committed to providing a great place to host open source projects at http://code.google.com/hosting http://code.google.com/hosting, that ha
by willnorris 15y ago
Google is still very committed to providing a great place to host open source projects at http://code.google.com/hosting http://code.google.com/hosting, that has not changed. But many of us are also fans of GitHub, and recognize that there is a great community of developers there (particularly in the ruby community).
The Google account on GitHub has been setup simply as a place where some open source Google projects can be mirrored. As another commenter noted, this is actually one of the points of a DVCS.
- dustineichler 15y ago"But many of us are also fans of GitHub, and recognize that there is a great community of developers there (particularly in the ruby community)", that's an interesting comment. Does Google care about Ruby?
- sudonim 15y agoNo, but google wants to dismiss github as being viable for communities outside of ruby. Especially when they compete with github on some level.
- tjohns 15y agoYes, we do. :) While it doesn't get as much use as other languages internally, there certainly are a number of in-house projects that use it. But more importantly, developers accessing our public APIs use Ruby. We maintain a number of client libraries to make accessing our APIs easier. (We also maintain similar libraries in Objective-C and C#, for example.) Not to mention that Sketchup uses Ruby for scripting: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/ http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/
- pjscott 15y agoWhat's the model for contributing patches going to look like? With GitHub projects, the usual method is to create a fork, do some work, and send in a pull request with a descriptive note. If it's easy to contribute, more people will do it; this is one of the big reasons why so many people are fans of GitHub. Will contributing to the projects mirrored here be that easy?