Google's unveiling: Google Code
Posted on July 27, 2006 by agentrickard
Google has a great number of employees working on OSS. Yesterday, I talked with two Subversion maintainers who work at Google. And now, Greg Stein is building the excitement for the new service.
Two rejected ideas -- things that the OSS community needs:
- A dating service for geeks
- Fitness trainers
[Polite laughter]
Google Code is the new project, its a host for OSS projects. Will be using Subversion on Bigtable. Looking for clean interface, big scalability and a new way to do issue tracking.
An orchestrated release hit Slashdot 2 minutes after the session started.
No project approval process, but they are reserving existing project names.
For developers, using the repository requires a gmail account.
They realize that there are missing pieces, especially a tarball downloader. The plan is to integrate with Gmail, Blogger, and Google Groups.
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Comments
Yep, a download area would be
August 11, 2006 by Andrew Chilton (not verified), 5 years 25 weeks ago
Comment: 55
Yep, a download area would be handy, not just for tar files but for deb and other packages too.
Of course, they have a
February 27, 2007 by Andrew Chilton (not verified), 4 years 49 weeks ago
Comment: 56
Of course, they have a download area now and have had for a little while already. It's good to know these guys listen (though I suspect they already knew they'd do this long before it was asked of them :-)