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It seems like somebody got too easy access to the Google Github repo. Usually only higher quality projects get approved to the central repo.

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If I remember correctly we were supposed to have our personal projects there.

Since Google owns the copyright it almost makes sense.

Also, being in the Google organization doesn't mean that Google is involved in it. I'm maintaining a project there (`google/double-conversion`), despite not having worked for Google for years. Nobody at Google has any influence or reviews on that project.

This. Google’s policy is kind of dumb (I write a lot of stuff for fun that no one wants the ownership of… The primary value is I learned something that I can use later on something important),but pretty much any experimental thing some one at Google works on will wind up there even on their free time.

Wrong. This is in a late state, and very high quality.

And Google is not really known to release high quality projects overall. Only some of them are.

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