> After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has become clear to us that the service simply isn’t needed anymore.
And now they've created a new product which does pretty much the same thing... Wonder how long this one will last.
code.google.com hosted public repos, issues, wiki, downloads, etc., and was generally just ripe for abuse. Google created it largely because Sourceforge was the only thing that existed at the time, and it wasn't doing a great job. Today there's GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and more.
CSR is primarily for hosting private code, shared among teams, and adding integrations with other Cloud services, in the Cloud Console. It also adds code search, which is pretty great. Hosting private repos, it's much less easily abused (it's not impossible). There are plenty of private repo hosts, and this one aims to be the one best integrated with GCP. It has, I think, a much better business reason to continue existing. It might not make money (I legitimately do not know) but it helps drive GCP adoption/usage, unlike code.google.com which didn't.
Disclosure: I worked on code.google.com, and helped turn it down, and helped create CSR from its ashes. I don't work on either anymore.
Understandable considering that AWS has codecommit and MSFT owns github now.
You can use their public search UI or install the extension.
I think the assumption is that most folks will use github / gitlab , etc. as their primary, and mirror to GSR for deployment.
That being said, the tool to migrate to GitHub worked well. It was an easy migration.