[Maciek416]

This is a problem I see plaguing several code-related groups that I'm following, and it is very annoying (and up till now, mystifying) to see not only showing up in regular message flow, but also in abridged once-a-day summaries.

It's nice to see Google maintaining stuff like Groups and Code, but they don't seem to get very good maintenance. I've been finding myself saying the phrase "I wish they'd move this project away from google code and onto github" quite frequently lately. I suspect I'll be saying something similar for groups very soon..

[antonovka]

I've been finding myself saying the phrase "I wish they'd move this project away from google code and onto github" quite frequently lately.

Funny, I usually find myself saying "I wish they'd move this project away from github, provide a proper API-stable versioned release, properly document the project and APIs, and otherwise behave like a well-maintained open source project" a lot lately. =)

If they did all that, then I wouldn't need to fork the project, maintain any local patches/modifications, etc.

[Maciek416]

Good points.

You're right that many github-hosted projects suffer from overly-brief documentation. Perhaps Github attracts a certain type of project maintainer at the moment..

[mrduncan]

I completely agree, and actually this blog post has gotten me thinking about different solutions and how they might look.

It seems like a perfect project to use Lamson (http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/lamson/) as a starting point for.

[antirez]

Google code is something like once a month in read-only for network maintenance, I really wonder what they do in the downtime.