Lazycoder

OSCON: Something Google is doing for Open Source

Lots of buzz about this. Lots of suits and news guys in here. Greg Stein is right on script and he isn’t deviating.
Project Hosting on google code. Subversion on BigTable. Complete re-think of issue tracking. Sounds like Sourceforge/Tigris done by Google. Hopefully not GotDotNet done by Google.

Obviously they have the space to host the projects. This falls right in line with the “you can’t AFFORD the infrastructure” line that we’ve been hearing most of this convention. Sounds like the are giving issue tracking a lobotomy. They added tagging to issues. Wow. Ajax based interface (of course). Hitting all the Web 2.0 buzzwords. Wait, where’s the social aspect? I bet they have one. “Track your friends projects!”.
code.google.com/hosting

Easy to create projects. No project approval process. I wonder how they’ll handle spam projects? Will this cause a lot of people to migrate from Sourceforge? I don’t think so, but I’ve seen enough people complain about Sourceforges uptime to think that there will be some migrations.

Issue tracking is all done in a big textarea. The project mgr can define boilerplate questions for the issue description.

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