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We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.

by cdibona 12y ago

We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.com

ctb_mg 12y ago
What is the criteria for "legitimate"? A project useful for me may not be "notable" enough for most to consider "legitimate".
- mintplant 12y ago
  Presumably, not abusing Google Code as a hosting site for pirated content.
  - duskwuff 12y ago
    Or for personal data. I've seen some people using Google Code as a pseudo-Dropbox. Clever, but ultimately not what the service was intended for.
grizzles 12y ago
Thanks for this, Chris. Could you publish a list of projects w/descriptions? That would be great for others (gitlab?) who might want to host / cherry-pick / curate the collection a bit more than that.
wiseleo 12y ago
Will it keep existing deep links published in books and research papers from breaking? What prevents Google from setting the whole site into read-only mode as-is? Keep it working as it does now and disable changes.
- sk5t 12y ago
  Was that a rhetorical question--how could any third party possibly prevent deep links from breaking?
  - vegedor 12y ago
    googlesource.com is not a third party
amiraliakbari 12y ago
I suggest letting developers to specify projects they find useful to be included in this cold storage.