A new home for Google Open Source (opens in new tab)

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

That's great. Is this site more of a resource for Googlers, and for outsiders to understand the process? A lot of the information I'm reading seems to suggest that.

Errr,it's completely and totally unrelated to that. It's because we have tons of temps, vendors, and contractors, and don't want to have to owe them source code to internal systems. The other alternative (remember that google is a monorepo) would be to somehow police them differently. That is literally not worth the cost.

The other problem is that we have 100+ GitHub organizations, so browsing them all together is impossible.

I think parent is referring to the longevity of this "new home", given Google's tendency to cancel things.

Google can stop killing shit any time it wants. It's got all the Spaces in the world.

Oh, wait, no, they killed that one. In about a year....

This one seems to have the purpose of showing off google open source contributions (for marketing purposes?) rather than actually hosting. So the utility is much lower and the effort to maintain it is lower. I wouldn't expect many to miss it greatly if it disappeared one day since the actual contributions are elsewhere. I'm not sure how that translates into the expected lifetime for google keeping it around.