> Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore.
Because Github and Gitlab was eating up the userbase left and right. The utter lack of any progress/development on Google Code itself was the nail in the coffin driving people away.
> That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship.
Why?
Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it.
The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.
Well we do as well but it's tied to a license key that enables specific extra freatures, so if they kill and can't renew it, we would be screwed unless they released a special change or key to disable it (barring someone else figuring out how to remove the key validation, likely against ToS)
There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.
It absolutely wasn't. It was completely insignificant in all respects to a company of that size. It also has had better alternatives within months of its demise to the point that it's rather surprising people are still missing it.
Basically so the founders and investors can cash out. Investors put money in to get a bigger return, and founders may have shares worth a lot on paper, but that's not money until someone else buys them.
Oracle could be a good candidate too. They have a cloud service and from what I can see their development environment is a mix of basic in-house tools, old-school stuff like Hudson and various open-source projects.
