Google launches open source hosting centre

Google has started to add open source project hosting to Google Code. The new site might go up against the most popular open source project hosting sites like SourceForge or Tigris. Google’s new hosting service will be without ads. Google will use the open source version control system Subversion, to which several Google developers contribute. The Subversion repository will store projects’ code and other data in Google’s BigTable database, which is also the data store behind Google Reader. BigTable can run on thousands of inexpensive computers for load balancing and reliability. Google’s new source code hosting service is not yet ready for production use. According to a post by Greg Stein on Sunday night

We just pushed out a fix for the Subversion performance. Please let us know if you see any continued problems.

However, when integrated with Google Groups, GMail, Google Talk and other services, the offer could become very popular with developers. To entrer into Google Code a free projcet code source it should be one of theses licences:

• Apache
• Artistic
• GNU General Public License
• Lesser General Public
• Mozilla License
• BSD
• MIT

Uo to now approximately 2,000 projects have been created on Google Code including 239 Java projects, 149 in Python, 71 in Ruby, and 19 mentioning Eclipse. - Google to host open-source projects - Google Sets Up Open Source Service - Builder AU - LinuxWorld.au - WebProNews - itWorldCanada.com

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