[okfn-discuss] code.google.com closing down

Tue Mar 17 13:47:28 UTC 2015

Good digital archiving is a huge challenge, but I think claiming that every
project stored on Google Code is now entirely Google's problem isn't
reasonable and won't get this solved. It's true that zipping each project
up and pushing it onto archive.org is a simple thing to do, and I'd be
surprised if Google didn't end up doing something along these lines.

Beyond that, I don't think that we should pretend there's a legitimate
expectation for infinite free service (e.g. git/svn servers, working
wikis). Maintaining F/OSS projects is real work, and Google shouldn't do it
for us.

Let's not forget that OKFN's own track record on this is probably not ideal
either - KForge was shut down without a very comprehensive archival plan...

- Friedrich

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:34 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 01:25:09PM +0000, David Miller wrote:
> > On 17 March 2015 at 13:03, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
> > > what a disgrace
> > Are you trolling?
>
> no i'm not. i'm disgusted by google destroying knowledge after 2016. i
> deeply
> care about open knowledge and such destruction is totally unacceptable.
>
> > Yes: Nice one.
> > No: Did you read their explanation [1] ?
>
> yes, they externalize their costs again on us. them, who would count as
> one of
> the top 50 states if we'd live in a more fascistic world. we can migrate
> the
> stuff away that we want to preserve after 2016. they could put it on
> read-only
> and host it for 20 more years.
>
> there's shitloads of valuable unmaintained and orphaned projects on
> googlecode, which will not be migrated if we do not get 1/ google to take
> responsibility, 2/ someone else cleaning up googles shit.
>
> --
> otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
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