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Putting the project itself aside (which does seem quite useful), am I the only one who finds it intriguing the fact that Google is not using Google Code to host some of their recent open source projects?

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Not really surprising. The goal of this project is to help developers make their web apps faster, not to make google code more popular. What's good for the web in general is good for Google and more important than the popularity of a product that doesn't make them much money anyway (google code).

I believe this is the general guidance for new projects- see https://github.com/polymer and https://github.com/dart-lang as well.

GitHub is just much better for collaboration.

Google Code was a breakthrough in it's time (remember Sourceforge?).

Today if you want your open source project to be noticed, you pretty much have to push it to Github.

It would be great if there was a tool to push/pull projects from Google Code to Github that handled not just moving the code but migrating issues and wiki content all the other details that aren't straightforward but could be automated like creating a gh-pages site for the project, migrating downloads, notifying/adding project admins, emailing issue watchers, etc. Even better if Google and Github collaborated so that it could handle redirecting traffic.

Not really new. See also: https://github.com/google

That would have suggested dominance of bureaucracy in Google. Guidelines suggesting projects to be put on Google Code, etc. This seems more decentralized.

Usually the justifications these companies give for such mandates is how it would look to outsiders if they are not using their own tools.

On the other hand I remember reading about how Google has a corporate mandate that their employees cannot use Microsoft Windows without providing a business justification.

Is the next step mandating Chromebooks (unless an Apple machine is justifiable)?

AFAIK, the requirement is due to security concerns from the China hacks in 2010. The way Sergey Brin put it in 2011, it sounds like employees have the option. On the number of employees using Windows: "I’d probably guess 20 percent ... But I’d have to get back to you."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144... http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/googlers-windows/

One would assume that since they develop Chrome for windows, they would have some number of devs using windows.

Yes, that would be "providing a business justification".

How do people make those snazzy ascii diagrams (they're in a lot of github pages) like this: http://snag.gy/LqA7j.jpg

Page: http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/overview.html

My guess? Asciiflow (http://www.asciiflow.com)

Neat. If you want something similar offline there should be a couple emacs packages that do essentially the same thing (e.g. artist-mode).

I find it very positive.

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