Saw this today, thought I would post it for others to review.

I'm a bit bummed, I really liked this service.

 

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html

 

A Change to Google Code Download Service

Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. Each project comes with its own member controls, Subversion/Mercurial/Git repository, issue tracker, wiki pages, and downloads service.

 

Downloads were implemented by Project Hosting on Google Code to enable open source projects to make their files available for public download. Unfortunately, downloads have become a source of abuse with a significant increase in incidents recently. Due to this increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure, we are deprecating downloads.

 

Starting today, existing projects that do not have any downloads and all new projects will not have the ability to create downloads. Existing projects with downloads will see no visible changes until January 14, 2014 and will no longer have the ability to create new downloads starting on January 15, 2014.  All existing downloads in these projects will continue to be accessible for the foreseeable future.

 

If your project is using downloads to host and distribute files and has a need to periodically create new downloads, we recommend you move your downloads to an alternate service like Google Drive before January 15, 2014. If you choose to move your files to Google Drive, check out our help article.

 

By Google Project Hosting

 

A shame they're doing that, as it was a very convenient service.  It does seem like they're making it relatively painless to move to Google Drive, so hopefully it won't cause too much pain, given that they've provided 6 months notice to get it done.

 

I read about this on Techdirt a while ago.  It was suggested that using sourceforge was a much more sensible option then google drive

I read about this on Techdirt a while ago.  It was suggested that using sourceforge was a much more sensible option then google drive

 

 

Do you have a link to it, or do you remember any specific keywords. Apparently my googling skills have not pulled it up yet.

use GitHub would be even better.

I read about this on Techdirt a while ago.  It was suggested that using sourceforge was a much more sensible option then google drive

 

 

Do you have a link to it, or do you remember any specific keywords. Apparently my googling skills have not pulled it up yet.

 

I can't seem to find it either.  Sorry to be so vague but I recall a discussion about free services, that Techdirt is big on, and the argument that google code had been in competition with other free services so if they couldn't be bothered competing any more then why should we make do with an alternative that was not was not optimized and a hassle when other free services exist that will do a better job.

it makes sense.

I really liked the google code interface. it's too bad.

 

I guess we'll see where the community moves to.

It would be great if we all used a common service.