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- calebegg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50you misspelled "God"
- codemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Compiled versions I can definitely live without, but no tarballs? Not everyone has subversion installed.
I think this time google actually released a beta product that actually felt beta 8) - joshpeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Hell yes, they're using Subversion!
- stou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It's crazy too because I tried to open a thing for my project, and it was like "Name is in use, would you like us to ask the other people if you can use their name or do you want to join their project"... I freaked out and it turns out, they search sourceforge for duplicate names... I endedup being the owner of the sourceforge name anyway =)
- kefs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12FAQ: http://code.google.com/hosting/faq.html
- jacobmp92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Watch the flood of projects from SourceForge all transfer to Google.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Release early, release often."
Could be google's new motto. - hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Nice find.
Check out the Section on Google, it has a ton of useful software. I wonder though why they don't offer compiled versions of the software ready to go. I think right now they are offering only source code for check-out. - imrik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8They are: http://code.google.com/projects.html
- prab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Where can I place release tarballs for download?
We haven't yet implemented this feature. But keep an eye out for this, too, as the service grows. - edsonmedina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hum... what's better than gmail? (please don't answer yahoo or hotmail)
- elkos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Google is Good! (TM)
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Have you even had time to compare the services yet? :-S Maybe it *is* more suitable for you, but some seem to be so Google horny that they switch without even caring for what they serve!
- micro506, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Now maybe THEY could give us some of THEIR code.
- eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Looks quite nice. If I ever code something worthwhile, I'll be very likely to host it with Google Code.
However, it looks to me like unless it's fixed soon, the profile page could serve as a major asset to spammers. I've got a Google Code profile (http://code.google.com/u/eurleif/), and so does -- as far as I can tell -- every GMail user in existance. GMail usernames which don't exist have no Google Code profiles (http://code.google.com/u/madeupusername/). It's not very hard to imagine spammers using this as a tool to check whether brute-forced GMail usernames are valid without all the fuss of sending out test emails. - saetaes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sweet! Another half-baked Google product nobody will use! Google Base anyone??
Sorry, but Google should worry more about de-spamifying their web search and strengthening their other core businesses. These sorts of product announcments tend to make me shrug my shoulders, "eh". - eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Those links aren't supposed to have punctuation at the end. Curse you, one-minute update window!
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4After browsing around, SourceForge seemed to have way more features.
But hey, it's Google, so it must be good. :-) - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://code.google.com/p/netgfs/
The google file system source code! Too bad the reposetory is empty.. -_- - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Attention all project that just left OpenDarwin...
...Welcome to your new home! - daypah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love how quickly people start writing this off and comparing it to Sourceforge when it hasn't even been officially announced yet.
- zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, they should offer the ability to mark it private. I want to host some projects there but I don't want to give out the sources. Why does google has the persona of being this god-like entity, they don't even give us their core IP, why should I give them mine :P
- freexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Try TortoiseSVN.
It intergrates with the windows explorer shell, and is very easy to use. - groovepapa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I dunno...SF.net may not be as simple as Google's interface, but writing software projects isn't usually a very simple affair anyway. I'm used to SF.net now and I've recently gotten into a rhythm of development with it, so I'll be staying...though I did register my project @ Google merely to provide a link to SF.net.
My prediction: not as much migration from SF.net as much as NEW open-source projects will use the Google service for the simplicity. - MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And I just registered a new project on sf. Oh well, google it is now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4They haven't published an announcment yet, they mentioned it at OSCON.
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Google_announces_hosting_for_open_source_projects
Newsforge story about it. - laplie, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8SourceForge is just plain better. Google does all these things which are inferior to others things out there, but people flock to it because its google. (Froogle, this, GMail, the list goes on).
BTW, anyone who didn't see this coming with Google Summer of Code, you're as blind as a deaf bat. - mcherm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is still missing one feature that is *ESSENTIAL* before anyone should use it for any serious project. So far, it does not allow any means for importing _OR EXPORTING_ your data (svn history, issue tracker data, etc). I trust Google -- if I wanted to move away, I'm sure they'd work with me eventually, but I'm still not using a repository that doesn't make it easy for me to leave (and take my data with me).
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4this will give google direct access to potential employees, much better than parsing cooked up resume or false recommendations, degrees etc.
- calebegg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think Google has gotten worse, I think the spammer's have gotten smarter. It's not any better on any other search engine I've used...
- eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It should be quite a bit easier for a spammer to check once whether the address exists and eliminate it if it doesn't than to send hundreds of email messages to a non-existant address until the end of time. Even if spammers catch bounce messages (has anyone ever tested this?), retrieving a page and checking the status code should be a lot easier to implement efficiently.
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3We use www.berlios.de for our open source project.
It's pretty good, and offers a lot of things for free. They are more flexible that SourceForge which rejected our project for absolutely no reason (at least they didn't tell us what the reason was).
If you are interested in hosting your OSS project, give berlios.de a try. - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's you.
- mikevickrocks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://www.*****.com FAGGY *****, WHO SPAM THEIR ***** WEBSITES! LOL OMG! Fag.
- zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WIthout a doubt an absolute neccesity to be able to export all data and terminate the project. Hopefully they will be adding support for some cool features like this.
- jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ummm it looks like all the downloads and bug reports just go right to sourceforge. How is that groundbreaking, google?
- FrankTheTankWSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know a good Windows Client to view the source from Subversion? I can not get it to work with the one I downloaded SmartSVN I always get the error that PROPFIND Request Failed -- Any ideas?
- laplie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1agreed. Google search used to be the cat's meow. Now its a lot worse (still the best but about 1/4 of its previous effectiveness
- finalcut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I moved a very simple wordpress plugin project I have (feedList plugin - http://rawlinson.us/blog/articles/feedlist-plugin/) to there from wp-plugins.org. So far so good - but the SVN connectivity at the moment (via TortoiseSVN) is unbearably slow.
I can't make a judgement on the featureset (particularly the bug tracker) until I have used it some.
I moved from wp-plugins.org because a week or so ago the domain was completely gone and had been replaced with a "search" page. It is back to it's old self now but I'd rather not risk it. Google probably won't be going anywhere too soon.
I have used SourceForge in the past and I won't even begin to voice my compliants with their offerings other than to say the CVS setup was horrid. - Lodarage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey, but where's the Perl from the main page's project labels???
- Zareste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds sexy.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Isn't that the same as a spammer sending an email to randomly generated email addresses? I'm sure that google does not index the user pages.
- groovepapa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Agreed. Everyone read this?
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_So_Much_Fanfare,_So_Few_Hits - deohieu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2There's only a problem with google code at the moment (after registering my project and posting my files to it).
The website address: http://code.google.com/hosting/ is a pain in ass in typing and remembering for me & everyone who want to look for some code. - Progranism, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3If you could make a project private that'd be fantastic. I need a free subversion server so I can sync across my desktop and laptop, but I certainly can't have it public.
- engtech, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I put together a list of the all the current features of Google Code - Project Hosting at:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/google-code-project-hosting-a-replacement-for-sourceforge/ - mornlee, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1GoogleForge!!!
http://code.google.com/projects.html - MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Is it me, or is google under the digg effect?
- romulasry, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1GoogleForge FTW! ;)
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