Google announced
the turning down Google Code Project Hosting. The
service started in 2006 with the goal of providing a scalable
and reliable way of hosting open source projects. Since that
time, millions of people have contributed to open source projects
hosted on the site.
But a lot has changed since 2006. In the past nine years, many
other options for hosting open source projects have popped
up, along with vibrant communities of developers. It’s time
to recognize that Google Code’s mission to provide open
source projects a home has been accomplished by others, such as
GitHub and Bitbucket.
Google will be shutting down Google Code over the coming months.
Starting today, the site will no longer accept new projects,
but will remain functionally unchanged until August 2015.
After that, project data will be read-only. Early next year,
the site will shut down, but project data will be available
for download in an archive format.
What Happens To Your Codes?
The simplest option would be to use the Google Code Exporter, a new tool that will allow you to export your projects directly to GitHub. Alternatively, we have documentation on how to migrate to other services — GitHub, Bitbucket, and SourceForge — manually.For more information, please see the Google Open Source blog or contact google-code-shutdown@google.
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