Happy 5th Birthday Google Code!
How time flies! It
was about
five
years ago that we launched Google Code to the world. When we launched Google Code,
we wanted to make
code.google.com a great
resource where developers could learn about our vision for open source and the open web. We
started in 2005 with a handful of our own open source projects, links to just eight APIs and
an announcement of the first ever
Google Summer of
Code, our now-annual program that introduces university students to open source
development. By 2006 our API list had grown to 21, in 2007 there were 37, and today our
collection of
more than 60 APIs receive
over four billion hits per day. Check out the changing face of Google Code below -- from 2005,
2007 to the present.
With the
meaning of
open in mind, Google Code set out to foster best practices in developer
documentation, build a community around web and open source development and demonstrate the
power of Google technologies. Over the past five years
code.google.com has come a long way from eight
APIs, maturing into a destination for developers to explore our growing family of APIs and
developer products, whether they
speed up the
web,
alleviate cross-browser
issues,
make hosting web
applications easy and scalable or
make the web a more social
place.
Google Code has also become an interactive place to
share ideas. Not only can developers prototype their work in a
Code Playground, they can
also use
Project Hosting on Google
Code, a fast, reliable and easy way for developers to host all kinds of open source
projects. Today, there are more than 240,000 projects registered, with commits coming in at
about 17,000 per day...about 1 every 5 seconds. We also host 800 open source projects of our
own, including four projects (
Android,
Chrome,
Chrome OS and
GWT) with over a million
lines of code each.
It’s been an amazing five years, but there’s still
a lot of work ahead. We’re dedicated to helping the developer and open source communities
thrive in as many ways as we can. To celebrate our birthday and thank everyone for supporting
code.google.com over the years we’re rolling
out a new, faster Subversion server, which will double the source code storage for Project
Hosting on Google Code from 1GB to 2GB. Happy coding!
By Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs
Manager
How time flies! It
was about five
years ago that we launched Google Code to the world. When we launched Google Code,
we wanted to make code.google.com a great
resource where developers could learn about our vision for open source and the open web. We
started in 2005 with a handful of our own open source projects, links to just eight APIs and
an announcement of the first ever Google Summer of
Code, our now-annual program that introduces university students to open source
development. By 2006 our API list had grown to 21, in 2007 there were 37, and today our
collection of more than 60 APIs receive
over four billion hits per day. Check out the changing face of Google Code below -- from 2005,
2007 to the present. 