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Comment by baldfat | Hacker News Reader

So the move to GitHub by Google's open source code is the next step? I kept hearing from people "in the know" that moving to GitHub was a real possibility a long time ago.

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Yeah, we've moved about a thousand projects to GH over the last few years. It's where the developers are, after all...

Most of Google's open source code is already on GitHub and has been for quite a while: https://github.com/google

If you ever read any of my comments and down votes from Hacker News it was always this. The code on GitHub is a mirror and not an actual GIT repo that is accepting merges and being worked on.

This is true for some projects, like Chromium and golang, but AFAICT not true for the majority of projects on that page. e.g. the currently most recently updated repo that doesn't have a "mirrored from..." subtitle is [1], and you can go see all the pull request activity on it (though I'm sure there are also lots of code dump repos in that list).

[1] https://github.com/google/trace-viewer

wrong.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/oauth2client and https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes, just to list two that I deal with.

Googler here.

Depends on the project. github.com/grpc is being developed github first (and accepting contributions), as are several of the projects on github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform.

This is not accurate. From a strict numbers perspective, ~95% are git repos accepting merges and being worked on. ~5% are mirrors.

Just saying I got downvoted a ton. Like around 50 or more times for just saying Google is on GitHub.

The "move" started a couple years ago. I open-sourced a Google project about 18 months ago and the recommended hosting solution was GitHub:

https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser

(Ironically, when posted on Hacker News, one of the first comments was that it was ironic that it was posted to GitHub and not Google Code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6210282

Much of Google's open source code is already on GitHub (see e.g. https://github.com/Google).

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