Google to close Google Code open source project hosting
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…