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I think this is Google quietly admitting that Google Code is all but dead. They will not completely get rid of it, but I would not be surprised if they switch it to read only mode sometime soon.

This is a momentous move for Github, especially with Microsoft moving .NET to Github as well. As someone who loves Github immensely, this makes me happy knowing that my favourite service is going to be around for a very long time.

Kudos to the Github team for well and truly making it as the premier code hosting and collaboration tool for developers and lovers of open source. It only goes up from here.

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Admitting Code is going nowhere, and seemingly for the first time in living memory, playing geek marketing catch-up with Microsoft :) I really love the new MS.

As someone has already mentioned Google already has stuff on Github.

Dart: https://github.com/dart-lang

And lots of other stuff:

https://github.com/google

Not limited to Google's main account, there is also Angular.js, Polymer, and CCA, to name a few others.

CCA?

Chrome Cordova Apps: https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps

So does Microsoft.

https://github.com/microsoft/ and https://github.com/azure/ to name two.

Yeah - AFAICT, Go is only taking this long because custom import path checking [1] needs to land in Go 1.4 first to make sure that users get rid of their pointers to code.google.com.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jVFkZTcYbNLaTxXD9OcGfn7v...

> I think this is Google quietly admitting that Google Code is all but dead.

Well, I doubt that Google Code engineers or project managers had much, if anything, to do with the decision to move the Go project.

That they didn't have a say in this matter though, speaks volumes...

It would if the whole idea wasn't based on an assumption with no evidence.

You mean we need evidence to know that moving Go to GitHub would be against the interests of the Google Code people, and that they would protest such a move?

Being cautious is one thing, being a sucker for being too cautious is another.

There are things like obvious conclusions.

How many google code (project hosting, that is) engineers and project managers can there possibly be? The what's new wiki[1] has no activity in 2014 and only two entries from 2013, both of which are removing functionality (code search and downloads).

[1] https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/WhatsNew

Some might say the same about Blogger and then it gets a minor update.

If they were smart about Google Code they would update it significantly and make it a competitor to Github with full GAE and Google Compute integration.

I'd be happy if they'd just let you turn off syntax highlighting for code blocks in the wiki. The default sh highlighter looks like crap if you display code in any unsupported language like assembly or Tcl. <pre> tags can be used but then you lose the gray background. That something so simple isn't implemented is the biggest sign of how abandoned Google Code has become.

> I think this is Google quietly admitting that Google Code is all but dead.

Go was on Mercurial before so it was already away from any Google own source control system.

> Go was on Mercurial before so it was already away from any Google own source control system.

How being on Mercurial implies that it was "away from Google code" ? It is in fact hosted on Google code currently (https://code.google.com/p/go/)

PS: Google code supports: subversion, mercurial and even git (https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted#Workin...)

I think he meant that it wasn't on their internal source control system, which is one massive repo.

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