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Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-shame dept.

An anonymous reader writes GitHub has officially won. Google has announced that Google Code project creation has been disabled today, with the ultimate plan to kill off the service next year. On August 24, 2015, the project hosting service will be set to read-only. This means you will still be able to checkout/view project source, issues, and wikis, but nobody will be able to make changes or new commits. On January 25, 2016, Google Code will be shut down. Google says you will be able to download tarballs of project source, issues, and wikis "throughout the rest of 2016." After that, Google Code will be gone for good.

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  1. Re:Google Product by JourneymanMereel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This was my thought exactly. Sadly, Google has proven themselves to be very unreliable.

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  2. Re:Google Product by ralphsiegler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong, the data will still be there and accessible. People can migrate to another store and take over a year to do so and be fine. I love people that whine about something a business provides for free, like a business is somehow obligated to give away freebies indefinitely. No one is going to lose any data. Reliable and responsible handling, in this case.

  3. Re:"Tum tum tum by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More seriously though, I'll never understand people who rely on Google's applications.

    1. Good enough.
    2. Free.
    3. Familiar.
    4. When they shut down, they usually give you a way to get your data.

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