Google is open to open source

On July 27, Google unveiled a website that allows programmers to host open source projects. This is considered the company's latest effort in promoting the development of open source.

Google's technical director Greg Stein, who announced the opening of an open source project hosting site at O'Reilly open source conference, said: " One of our goals is to encourage the development of healthy and efficient open source communities Developers will benefit from having more options to place their open source project website . "

One of the top choices for open source programming developers is VA Software's SourceForge.net website. The site is now the "home" of more than 100,000 different open source projects. Thus can see Google's latest move is to compete with SourceForge.net.

On the opening day, Google welcomed dozens of new projects to its new service. Unlike other Google services - users must receive an invitation to sign up to use - a new Google service that allows users to subscribe to the service.

Google will provide its latest service through the Google Code website ( http://code.google.com ) - a site that hosts many APIs and tools that help developers integrate Google service into their products.

Google's open source project hosting service will have its own mechanism for storing software products, discussion among developers by email list and product tracking. Google allows hosting projects of different types of open source licenses.

" However, Google's new service is not for everyone. Google wants to see popular standard projects or projects that best suit the needs of developers and Google itself ," Google confirmed.

And to avoid from overlapping projects on SourceForge, Google collected a list of project names on the SourceForge website.

Hoang Dung