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While true that no one uses Google Code. Every now and then, I bump into some obscure but a little useful project being hosted on Google Code. Maybe, makers of those projects have grown out of them and don't wish to put any more effort but still, there is a bit of value, I am able to derive from them.

What will happen, if those projects are not migrated because their developers have simply forgotten about them?

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We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.com

What is the criteria for "legitimate"? A project useful for me may not be "notable" enough for most to consider "legitimate".

Presumably, not abusing Google Code as a hosting site for pirated content.

Or for personal data. I've seen some people using Google Code as a pseudo-Dropbox. Clever, but ultimately not what the service was intended for.

Thanks for this, Chris.

Could you publish a list of projects w/descriptions? That would be great for others (gitlab?) who might want to host / cherry-pick / curate the collection a bit more than that.

Will it keep existing deep links published in books and research papers from breaking? What prevents Google from setting the whole site into read-only mode as-is? Keep it working as it does now and disable changes.

Was that a rhetorical question--how could any third party possibly prevent deep links from breaking?

I suggest letting developers to specify projects they find useful to be included in this cold storage.

Someone needs to do an Internet Archive style project on all these repositories, put them up on Github, and make sure that they are indexed properly by search engines (i.e. intro pages become README.md, wikis are migrated, etc.).

If someone wants to make an actual serious effort on this, feel free to contact me.

Perhaps archive.org will take it upon themselves to archive all the projects.

This is the one thing I'm a bit worried about. I've downloaded several Google Code projects this year so far alone.

Find those useful projects and post them on Bitbucket or GitHub

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