Google is shutting down it’s well-known code project hosting service Google Code. Many developers used it as a reliable place for hosting their important code files but now they have to migrate those files because Google will shut down the service very soon.

Google started the service in 2006 with aim to provide scalable and reliable way of hosting open source projects. Many people used it . But now Google thinks that other open source project hosting solutions like GitHub and Bitbucket are doing the same work with more reliability and popularity.

From today, Google will not accept any new project but they will keep website as it is till August 2015. Google will not delete the project files, The existing projects will be available for download in an archive format. Developer can use Google Code Exporter tool to export their projects and code .

Google Sent a mail to all Google Code Users. Here is what i received :