I think we all saw this coming when Google started moving their projects over to Github away from Google Code. This is definitely the right move to make. Howeve

I think we all saw this coming when Google started moving their projects over to Github away from Google Code. This is definitely the right move to make. However, I find it quite disturbing that Google is closing the service down entirely. Surely it would be more beneficial to keep the site in read only made for a good while longer given how deeply linked some parts of the web are to Google Code repositories. Perhaps somehow clean up the platform and hand over the reigns to the Internet Archive instead so it can be preserved and then 301 redirect any request to the archive. Google really needs to get some kind of procedure in place for retiring their applications and services. Surely they realise that being the largest Internet company out there they have responsibilities to do the right thing by the millions that rely on their services daily? You can't just throw something away even if many moved on to Github and Bitbucket quite some time ago. Why not some kind of automated service that attempts to redirect to projects that have moved to Github and Bitbucket? Google has a trove of data, surely they can achieve something like that with pretty close accuracy and then use their manual approach for the projects that they could not automatically link.