Google Code will officially stop existing. The open source project hosting service will no longer be accepting new project submissions as of today nor will no longer be accepting updates to existing projects from August 24, and will be closed entirely on January 25, 2016. The company has moved their libphonenumber project which parses phone numbers from Google Code to GitHub. If you do have projects on GC you can export them to GitHub, SourceForge or Bitbucket.
The biggest problem are the projects that are no longer being worked on or abandon by the original developers which is a common scenario for all open source project platforms—SourceForge, GitHub, Bitbucket, Microsoft’s CodePlex, Google Code, and every other, is that developers get bored, busy, or feel that a piece of code is as good as it’s ever going to be thus the project are no longer actively maintained. What will happen to those projects I am assuming to the machine that eats bits and bytes. Google says that it will allow tarballs of projects (including source code, issues lists, and wiki pages) to be downloaded through the end of 2016. After that, however, it seems that the projects will cease to exist.
Google indicated that the closure is due to spam and abuse which is part of the problem had come to dominate the workload of administering the service. When it was launched in 2006, there were fewer good project hosting options, but with services such as GitHub and Bitbucket now available, there’s no great need for Google to have its own solution.
This is why Baron Software does not recommend using GitHub or other FREE source banks because of this type of reason, when you cannot afford the bills you close the lights. Some people will swear that GitHub is the end all but we at the lab feel that internal source banks are better for the company and the only reason to put valuable software into a free zone is because you plan to have it as public domain.