Google Code Shutting Down

Today I got mail from Google that migrate your projects from Google Code as we are going to shut down this service in coming months. I had contributed lot of opensource projects in the Google code repository. So I amazed why Google is going to shutdown Google code which is widely used across the world. It was very easy to use with SVN for check out and check-in codes.

Although we have many other open source project repository hosting services but we (at least I) are used to Google Code.

In recent years Google discontinued its almost 35 services that's what Wikipedia is saying (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_services) and 24 acquisitions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_acquisitions) .  So Google dont you study the market before starting any service or just some one created and or you started a service by own and when it fails you shutdown it?

Now I don't expected Google to close Google Search , Google Analytic and Blogger because we don't have any other good option in market. Although WordPress is giving big competition to Blogger but WordPress is limited and paid and is more used as CMS.

So what Google is saying on shutting down Google Code :

"Earlier today (03/13/2015), 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." 

So Google is saying there are other options available in the market for hosting open source projects such as GitHub and Bitbucket. So in market other services available which competes Google's services so can we expect Google to close those services also in coming next 4 to 5 years? Why you don't compete against them instead of shutting down the services? 

Anyway if Google decided to close the service then we can't do anything. Google provides some tools to migrate your projects from Google Code repository.

You can use Google Code Exporter to export your existing Google code projects directly to GitHub and for more other options you can visit https://code.google.com/p/support-tools/. Or you can checkout the exiting code on your computer and upload it wherever you want to, Google don't care .

Please send your suggestions as comment.