WTF, is this for real? Google Code Shutting Down?
Eric Hertz wrote 03/13/2015 at 01:17 • 3 pointsI get an email today "Google Code Hosting is shutting down" -ish
If it's a trojan, it's really clever and well-done, but I sure ain't clicking those links, nor including 'em here. I know I could Google this topic pretty easily, and likely will soon. In the meantime:
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I think this is the right thing to do because GitHub and even Bitbucket has been much better for years. Google's even on GitHub themselves: https://github.com/google
Now if they will just get rid of Google+ and focus on their successful products... ;)
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It's real. The site was a noble idea - I have a project there - but Google really did very little to keep it up or add usable features. File hosting died a while back due to spam, so I guess the writing was on the wall already.
I prefer Sourceforge (but then, I prefer Subversion) - they still have a "files" area for downloads, and a tool to import your stuff from Google Code automatically.
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Yea sadly this is real, as if github is all that great (its not!)
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Not so happy about that either... I'll have to check the links on my ressources online for this stuff...
At least, considering the power of google, they could let files online, or provide redirection links?
Perhaps there should be a hackaday.io code hosting? :)
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Bottom right.
https://code.google.com/
"Project Hosting on Google Code will close on January 25th, 2016. More info..."
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Alright... You win!
This mission-impossible junior-007 venture is now over!
And... yahknow... this page shows me exactly what killed the site... at least for me.
Remove the " " and you're stuck at the generic site. Despite the fact I'm logged-in. Where the heck are *my* projects? How the heck do I edit/update or even just *view* them?! I have no idea where to go from here? And, frankly, never have. If I didn't have direct-links to the actual projects stored in my bookmarks, I'd have no idea how to navigate that site. Good Riddance (but not before I have a chance to extract all the information I put up there!)
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It is http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html
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Hah!
It looks convincing, and I'm not saying it's not probably about time, but so far I have yet to see a single link actually hosted at Google.com. It seems strange. E.G. the migration-tools linked from there are a *google code* project... Yes, it's at code.google.com/something, but so is every other random-user's code-project.
Anyhow, it'd be a stupid joke, because, frankly, everything said is pretty much true (no?)... And, really, if it is a trojan, the actual plausibility of someone clicking the right link to download it seems very hidden... But it *does* seem strange there's basically no direct mention from a an easily-verifiable google source to be found in any of the sources that've come my way, so far. OTOH, I've never followed google-opensource.blogspot.com, so maybe that is the official page, and always has been... or maybe not.
Why do I care, anyhow? Just curious, I guess.
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BlogSpot is google
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right... but anyone can create a blogspot account that starts with *account-name*.blogspot.com... no? That was my logic, having never heard of that blog before...
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