[smnrchrds]

Most HN visitors are programmers. Some may have projects hosted on Google Code, thus inaccessible to parts of the world without them even knowing. In the past, whenever I encountered a project hosted on Google Code which I needed, I contacted the developers and explained the situation. When I saw this discussion here on HN, I decided to use the opportunity to ask everyone who has a project hosted there to move it to a more international-friendly alternative like Github or Bitbucket.

I don't think it is probable that Oracle, Xilinx or Google change their policies. Yet it is in the developer's power to decide where to host a project.

I like to ask everyone who has a project hosted on Google Code or is thinking about using it for future projects to use another service if possible.