Our friends at
Adobe recently started hosting
their open source projects on Google Code. We wanted to hear a bit more about their
experience moving
ActionScript 3 libraries over to Google Code, and here is what they had to
say:
We recently moved these libraries from our own
Adobe
Labs site to Google Code, and have been very happy with the
results thus far. The projects were always intended to be community run projects, but our
initial deployment site did not have the infrastructure in place to handle hosting an open
source project with multiple developers. As the libraries became more and more popular, and as
we continued to get requests from developers to improve and contribute code, we decided that
we needed to move to a system that would better allow the developer community to contribute to
the projects.
We looked at a number of code repositories, but decided
on Google Code because it had all of the features that we wanted (Subversion, Issue Tracking,
Downloads, Wiki and Groups), and integrated them in a way we felt was intuitive and
straightforward. We did run into some initial problems moving the code from our Subversion
repository to Google Code, but with some help from Google, were able to make the
transition.
We have already seen more participation from the developer
community, and have added new features and fixed some bugs. We expect that the projects will
continue to grow as more developers start working with ActionScript, Flash and Flex.
