Google’s unveiling: Google Code
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.
Yep, a download area would be handy, not just for tar files but for deb and other packages too.
By Andrew Chilton on 08.11.06 10:42 pm
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 :-)
By Andrew Chilton on 02.27.07 5:59 am