I just noticed that there is now Project Hosting on Google Code via Slashdot. The Slashdot article has the following rich quote
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier sat down for a talk with Greg Stein and Chris DiBona,
who say that the product is very similar to sites like SourceForge but is not
intended to compete with them. From the article: "Instead, Stein says that
the goal is to see what Google can do with the Google infrastructure, to provide
an alternative for open source projects. DiBona says that it's a 'direct result
of Greg concentrating on what open source projects need. Most bugtrackers are
informed by what corporations' and large projects need, whereas Google's offering is just about what
open source developers need. Stein says that Google's hosting has a 'brand new
look' at issue tracking that may be of interest to open source projects, and
says 'nobody else out there is doing anything close to it.'"
Last year, when I saw Chris DiBona announce Google Code at the O'Reilly ETech conference, he said that that they woild work with SourceForge to improve the service. I wonder what happened. The site seems pretty sparse right now, I doubt I'll be moving RSS Bandit from SourceForge anytime soon.