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I 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

by Navarr 12y ago

I 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 ago
Google 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 ago
  Hi 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 ago
    I remember We actually served election data ourselves there for a bit, but not with cache busting :)
- wldcordeiro 12y ago
  If 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
    Who says they won't? :) Seriously though, yes, that would be really cool, but probably not something you could directly transform google code into. Google Code is a pretty legacy codebase in a lot of ways. It would likely require making a new platform to do such a thing.
    - wldcordeiro 12y ago
      Oh no doubt the codebase would likely need a massive refactoring (if not even a rewrite) but the name could stay the same.

by Navarr 12y ago

DannyBee 12y ago

Google 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 ago
Hi 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 ago
  I remember We actually served election data ourselves there for a bit, but not with cache busting :)
wldcordeiro 12y ago
If 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
  Who says they won't? :) Seriously though, yes, that would be really cool, but probably not something you could directly transform google code into. Google Code is a pretty legacy codebase in a lot of ways. It would likely require making a new platform to do such a thing.
  - wldcordeiro 12y ago
    Oh no doubt the codebase would likely need a massive refactoring (if not even a rewrite) but the name could stay the same.