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To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.

rogerbinns 14y ago
I host my personal projects on Google Code. In contrast to Github it lets you host files (especially important if not all your users have compilers or similar tools), and lets you have multiple repositories per project. Pretty much every hoster does two repositories per project - one for the main source and a second for the wiki. Having more than two is great. For example for work stuff I often have Android client and server as different repositories. But there is no need for them to have separate bug trackers or wikis - for an end user it is often hard to tell where an issue actually lies and having to copy issues between client and server side trackers is useless work. Github's issue tracker lacks being able to prioritise which is highly annoying. The most annoying problem with Google Code is they refuse to have private paid for hosting - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 Having all our employees create new Github accounts and doing administration there is a pain when we already do everything else at Google. I suspect paid project hosting would also help improve Google Code since there would be revenue behind feature requests and bugs.
- raylu 14y ago
  Minor point: GitHub wiki's have git access. https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access
  - rogerbinns 14y ago
    I don't understand what point you are trying to make. As I stated, pretty much every project hoster has two repositories per project for the code and wiki. Eg for github you have github.com/[user]/[project].git and github.com/[user]/[project].wiki.git With Google Code you can have any number of additional repositories eg the equivalent of github.com/[user]/[project].documentation.git, github.com/[user]/[project].testsuites.git, github.com/[user]/[project].androidclient.git etc With Github you would have to create new projects which means separate issue trackers, wikis etc.
- Matrixik 14y ago
  Did you check bitbucket.org? They support binary downloads, git and hg, issues priorities [1], free private repos for 5 users. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-interface-updates/ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-inte...
  - rogerbinns 14y ago
    Yes. I personally prefer hg over git and originally used bitbucket, including signing up a startup I worked at. The biggest problem was that bitbucket made it painful to have multiple accounts (work and personal) so I gave up using them for personal stuff. The startup is now defunct. I did have some unpleasant experiences though, including a security hole (since fixed), which didn't leave me with much confidence.
seanmcdirmid 14y ago
No love for codeplex?

I host my personal projects on Google Code. In contrast to Github it lets you host files (especially important if not all your users have compilers or similar tools), and lets you have multiple repositories per project. Pretty much every hoster does two repositories per project - one for the main source and a second for the wiki. Having more than two is great. For example for work stuff I often have Android client and server as different repositories. But there is no need for them to have separate bug trackers or wikis - for an end user it is often hard to tell where an issue actually lies and having to copy issues between client and server side trackers is useless work. Github's issue tracker lacks being able to prioritise which is highly annoying. The most annoying problem with Google Code is they refuse to have private paid for hosting - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 Having all our employees create new Github accounts and doing administration there is a pain when we already do everything else at Google. I suspect paid project hosting would also help improve Google Code since there would be revenue behind feature requests and bugs.

raylu 14y ago
Minor point: GitHub wiki's have git access. https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  I don't understand what point you are trying to make. As I stated, pretty much every project hoster has two repositories per project for the code and wiki. Eg for github you have github.com/[user]/[project].git and github.com/[user]/[project].wiki.git With Google Code you can have any number of additional repositories eg the equivalent of github.com/[user]/[project].documentation.git, github.com/[user]/[project].testsuites.git, github.com/[user]/[project].androidclient.git etc With Github you would have to create new projects which means separate issue trackers, wikis etc.
Matrixik 14y ago
Did you check bitbucket.org? They support binary downloads, git and hg, issues priorities [1], free private repos for 5 users. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-interface-updates/ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-inte...
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  Yes. I personally prefer hg over git and originally used bitbucket, including signing up a startup I worked at. The biggest problem was that bitbucket made it painful to have multiple accounts (work and personal) so I gave up using them for personal stuff. The startup is now defunct. I did have some unpleasant experiences though, including a security hole (since fixed), which didn't leave me with much confidence.

seanmcdirmid 14y ago

No love for codeplex?