Google Code?

[Rich Hickey]

Google has recently opened up Google Code to hosting projects using
the Eclipse Public License, the successor to the CPL used by Clojure.

Right now I'm only using SF for SVN, as the web interface on SF for
anything else is quite cumbersome. I could easily move to EPL for
Clojure, making hosting at Google Code a possibility, and am
interested in feedback from anyone who has hosted at Google Code or
participated in a project that did.

Thanks,

Rich

[Randall R Schulz]

Would the project still use SVN? Or would you have to switch to Git or
some other source code management system?

Also, while this doesn't directly affect me, have you considered the
implications of a license change for the contributor agreements you've
already acquired from contributing authors?

> Thanks,
>
> Rich

Randall Schulz

[Parth Malwankar]

I was hosting a mini project on google code till a few day back (I
deleted it
as I had not touched it in about 2 months). I am not sure about your
overall criteria but here are some things that I liked about it.

- While the 'issue tracker' is not a full fledged bug tracking
system like bugzilla, I liked it for its responsiveness and
simplicity.
Its trivial to add new categories and stuff.
- Overall responsiveness (svn, wiki etc.) was really good.
- project creation was trivial.
- Viewing of changelogs, diffs etc. are possible via the
web interface
- Good integration - wiki, issue tracker, download area,
links marked 'featured' automatically show up on front
page (same with 'featured' downloads).

I think the focus for google code has been on performance
and ease of use which I liked.

I had also evaluated launchpad with its bzr integration
but as a user I found googlecode easier to use and also
to administer.

One thing to note is that they had a 100MB disk space
quota (which they apparently increase once you file a
ticket - I saw a bunch of such tickets closed in the logs
though I personally didn't hit this limit).

Personally I would vote for googlecode.

Parth


>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich

[Rich Hickey]

On Aug 30, 10:37 am, Randall R Schulz <rsch...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:53, Rich Hickey wrote:
>
> > Google has recently opened up Google Code to hosting projects using
> > the Eclipse Public License, the successor to the CPL used by Clojure.
>
> > Right now I'm only using SF for SVN, as the web interface on SF for
> > anything else is quite cumbersome. I could easily move to EPL for
> > Clojure, making hosting at Google Code a possibility, and am
> > interested in feedback from anyone who has hosted at Google Code or
> > participated in a project that did.
>
> Would the project still use SVN? Or would you have to switch to Git or
> some other source code management system?
>

It would still use SVN.

> Also, while this doesn't directly affect me, have you considered the
> implications of a license change for the contributor agreements you've
> already acquired from contributing authors?
>

Yes, in fact the CA exists specifically so I can make decisions like
this, and enables me to do so. For users, the EPL should be
acceptable, as it is substantially the same license as CPL.

Rich