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The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
by yid 12y ago
The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
- john2x 12y agoI hope they at least keep it in read-only mode. Oh god, all those dead links.
- ch4s3 12y agoI'd love for them to just go read only, a TON of academic work lives on there, but its awful to use.
- kyrra 12y agoI much prefer Google code defect tracker to the GitHub one. But that's about the only plus of Google code. (Though, a small part of me wants mercurial to live on, but it doesn't seem like that will happen)
- ch4s3 12y agoThat defect tracker is nice. I've never used mercurial so I can't comment on that. Github keeps getting better, I'll bet if people asked for improvements to defect tracking we might get them.
- staunch 12y agoGoogle Code = Google Video GitHub = YouTube
- DannyBee 12y agoUh, no. Google Code took over the space in a way Google Video never did.
- munificent 12y agoSourceForge -> Friendster Google Code -> MySpace GitHub -> Facebook :)
- DannyBee 12y agoPretty much :)
- Navarr 12y agoI think Google stopped bothering with Google Code when Github came to popularity. Google Code doesn't really fill Google's mission, so it's not absurd for them not to bother once someone who's truly focused on the space has created a superior competitor.
- DannyBee 12y agoGoogle Code was created mainly to combat the monoculture of Sourceforge, which was slowly growing crappier. Google wanted to create a place open source people actually wanted to be, and had reliable hosting, instead of a place people had to sadly live with that was pretty unreliable (no offense meant to my friends at sourceforge). Doing so jump started some competition in this space. While github is slowly becoming a monoculture again, it doesn't appear to slowly be growing crappier or less reliable. I'm sure in 5-10 years something like Google Code will be necessary again. (Google code was the first engineering project I worked on at Google, for a few years starting in 2006).
- Stratoscope 12y agoHi Dan! Remember when I DDOSed Google Code on Super Tuesday 2008, when I thought it would be a good idea to host my election map result tiles there, and then I forgot to turn off the cachebuster in my tile URLs? Good times... :-)
- DannyBee 12y agoI remember We actually served election data ourselves there for a bit, but not with cache busting :)
- wldcordeiro 12y agoIf they wanted to they could turn Google Code into a real competitor for Github with full GAE and Compute integration. That would make it an amazing platform.
- DannyBee 12y ago