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Putting the project itself aside (which does seem quite useful), am I the only one who finds it intriguing the fact that Google is not using Google Code to host
by arturhoo 13y ago
Putting the project itself aside (which does seem quite useful), am I the only one who finds it intriguing the fact that Google is not using Google Code to host some of their recent open source projects?
- patrickaljord 13y agoNot really surprising. The goal of this project is to help developers make their web apps faster, not to make google code more popular. What's good for the web in general is good for Google and more important than the popularity of a product that doesn't make them much money anyway (google code).
- danmaz74 13y agoI find it very positive.
- mapleoin 13y agoNot really new. See also: https://github.com/google https://github.com/google
- alokm 13y agoThat would have suggested dominance of bureaucracy in Google. Guidelines suggesting projects to be put on Google Code, etc. This seems more decentralized.
- simula67 13y agoUsually the justifications these companies give for such mandates is how it would look to outsiders if they are not using their own tools. On the other hand I remember reading about how Google has a corporate mandate that their employees cannot use Microsoft Windows without providing a business justification.
- draz 13y agoIs the next step mandating Chromebooks (unless an Apple machine is justifiable)?
- chaz 13y agoAFAIK, the requirement is due to security concerns from the China hacks in 2010. The way Sergey Brin put it in 2011, it sounds like employees have the option. On the number of employees using Windows: "I’d probably guess 20 percent ... But I’d have to get back to you." http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html#axzz2auk9z63j http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144... http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/googlers-windows/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/googlers-windows/
- ams6110 13y agoOne would assume that since they develop Chrome for windows, they would have some number of devs using windows.
- andyroid 13y agoYes, that would be "providing a business justification".
- ra 13y agoGoogle Code was a breakthrough in it's time (remember Sourceforge?). Today if you want your open source project to be noticed, you pretty much have to push it to Github.
- Flenser 13y agoIt would be great if there was a tool to push/pull projects from Google Code to Github that handled not just moving the code but migrating issues and wiki content all the other details that aren't straightforward but could be automated like creating a gh-pages site for the project, migrating downloads, notifying/adding project admins, emailing issue watchers, etc. Even better if Google and Github collaborated so that it could handle redirecting traffic.
- randomfool 13y agoI believe this is the general guidance for new projects- see https://github.com/polymer https://github.com/polymer and https://github.com/dart-lang https://github.com/dart-lang as well. GitHub is just much better for collaboration.
- ignorant_tables 13y agoHow do people make those snazzy ascii diagrams (they're in a lot of github pages) like this: http://snag.gy/LqA7j.jpg http://snag.gy/LqA7j.jpg Page: http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/overview.html http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/overview.html
- allengeorge 13y agoMy guess? Asciiflow (http://www.asciiflow.com http://www.asciiflow.com)
- ics 13y agoNeat. If you want something similar offline there should be a couple emacs packages that do essentially the same thing (e.g. artist-mode).