Ever now and then I stumble upon project websites hosted on Google Code. Not nearly as much as those hosted on Sourceforge, Codeplex or everybody's darling GitGub but regularly enough to know that it is a contender in the project hosting vertical.

 

Google announced today that it made the decision to close Google Code for good. The company released a timeline detailing various steps in the process.

 

Today, new project creation has been disabled on the site. This does not change a thing for existing projects which can still be updated and accessed both by project members and interested third-parties.

The next step turns the site into a read-only repository. From August 24, 2015 on all projects on Google Code become read-only.

 

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