Fwd: Google Code shutting down

[Tyson Key]

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone's well.

I come with this cheery note from Google, that I've just received, a few moments ago...

Please note that this means that we now have until August 2016, to find a new home for our ISOs (SourceForge - since some stuff's mirrored there, already?), and other project downloads that won't fit on our Google Sites-based Website (which they better not discontinue, too!), since their migration tool probably doesn't deal with them.

Also, as a friendly note - if you've got any personal projects hosted over there, I'd strongly encourage you to migrate them elsewhere, ASAP, before they pull the rug out from underneath you, too... (I've got a rather complex wiki, hosted over there to take care of, too). 

I guess this highlights the importance of us trying to find a stable home for PureDarwin, that isn't either Google, or Hetzner, in the long run...

Take care,

Tyson.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <google-co...@google.com>
Date: 2015-03-13 1:09 GMT+00:00
Subject: Google Code shutting down
To: tyso...@gmail.com

Code

Hello,

Earlier today, Google announced we will be turning down Google Code Project Hosting. The service started in 2006 with the goal of providing a scalable and reliable way of hosting open source projects. Since that time, millions of people have contributed to open source projects hosted on the site.

But a lot has changed since 2006. In the past nine years, many other options for hosting open source projects have popped up, along with vibrant communities of developers. It’s time to recognize that Google Code’s mission to provide open source projects a home has been accomplished by others, such as GitHub and Bitbucket.

We will be shutting down Google Code over the coming months. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new projects, but will remain functionally unchanged until August 2015. After that, project data will be read-only. Early next year, the site will shut down, but project data will be available for download in an archive format.

As the owner of the following projects, you have several options for migrating your data.

• i9os
• understand
• openstream-spec
• symbian-incubation-projects
• puredarwin
• tysonkey-experimental

The simplest option would be to use the Google Code Exporter, a new tool that will allow you to export your projects directly to GitHub. Alternatively, we have documentation on how to migrate to other services — GitHub, Bitbucket, and SourceForge — manually.

For more information, please see the Google Open Source blog or contact google-cod...@google.com.

-The Google Code team

Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to Google Code Project Hosting.

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[Ferdinand Klinzer]

Hello Tyson,

and the rest of the puredarwin community,

thanks for the information mail about google code Tyson!... and thanks for telling it me last night in our irc channel

#puredarwin !

I think some iso's already mirrored on sourceforge and like Tyson was saying now we have time till August 2016 max. what we can use alternative yet, i have a kvm box maybe i can host the isos there i need to speak with my admin.

Will give some infos. soon about that here on the list.

Have a nice weekend 

cheers from berlin

Ferdinand