A new home for Google Open Source

jeremy · 03-28-2017, 05:41 PM

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Free and open source software has been part of our technical and organizational foundation since Google’s early beginnings. From servers running the Linux kernel to an internal culture of being able to patch any other team's code, open source is part of everything we do. In return, we've released millions of lines of open source code, run programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, and sponsor open source projects and communities through organizations like Software Freedom Conservancy, the Apache Software Foundation, and many others.

Today, we’re launching opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source.

This new site showcases the breadth and depth of our love for open source. It will contain the expected things: our programs, organizations we support, and a comprehensive list of open source projects we've released. But it also contains something unexpected: a look under the hood at how we "do" open source.

Helping you find interesting open source

One of the tenets of our philosophy towards releasing open source code is that "more is better." We don't know which projects will find an audience, so we help teams release code whenever possible. As a result, we have released thousands of projects under open source licenses ranging from larger products like TensorFlow, Go, and Kubernetes to smaller projects such as Light My Piano, Neuroglancer and Periph.io. Some are fully supported while others are experimental or just for fun. With so many projects spread across 100 GitHub organizations and our self-hosted Git service, it can be difficult to see the scope and scale of our open source footprint.

To provide a more complete picture, we are launching a directory of our open source projects which we will expand over time. For many of these projects we are also adding information about how they are used inside Google. In the future, we hope to add more information about project lifecycle and maturity.

--jeremy

notKlaatu · 03-28-2017, 05:53 PM

After Google Code imploded, is anyone *really* gonna trust Google with code hosting again?

EDIT: after looking at the site, it looks like maybe it's not meant for public code hosting, just as a portal to Google's open source projects.

jeremy · 03-28-2017, 05:59 PM

While some of the Google Open Source projects, such as Chromium, are hosted internally most of the 2,000+ seem to be on GitHub these days. There doesn't appear to be an effort here to allow Google to host external projects.

--jeremy

jefro · 03-28-2017, 06:53 PM

I too am disillusioned by those people at google. For a decade or more there in little evidence in my mind to think they are any good towards any of the goals I look for in software or hardware or anything.

We'll see how they do on this too.

a4z · 03-29-2017, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

While some of the Google Open Source projects, such as Chromium, are hosted internally most of the 2,000+ seem to be on GitHub these days. There doesn't appear to be an effort here to allow Google to host external projects.

--jeremy

maybe google just wants to transfer 'their' projects onto their servers so that they have full control so that the code and development does not happen on a 3rd party location any more, who knows
(their projects == started by them or having the majority of contributes employed)
edit: just have see, this is not a hosting solution, rather a different search interface.. ok

not edited, since I think this is unchanged :-)
but what ever the motivation is, the 'because we love'... is an AD no one belies today any longer, beside the fact that 'because we love' is a MS thing :-)