As previously announced, Google Code became read-only for most projects on August 24th, 2015.

Some Google-affiliated projects (e.g., /p/chromium and /p/android) will remain read-write while an alternative issue tracker is being developed. Once ready, those projects will migrate their data off of Google Code.

What will happen to the data?

Google Code data will still be accessible, just read-only. You will be able to search for and browse project issues, sync source data, and so on. The Export to GitHub feature will still work as advertised.

However, during this time you will not be able to modify projects. For example: create new issues, push code changes, or even modify admin settings. If you need some administrative action taken, such as deleting a project or setting up an automatic redirect URL, please contact us. (Instructions will also be linked from the /admin page of for project administrators.)

Google Code Archive

The Google Code Archive is a dump of all of Google Code's public information. It will eventually replace the frontend for Google Code.

How long will the data remain available?

Google Code's data will remain online for years into the future.

Until January 2016 the Google Code Project Hosting service as it exists today will continue to be available. And you will still be able to use version control clients like git, hg, or svn to access project data.

After January 2016 you will no longer be able to access source code from a version control client; however project data will still be available from the Google Code Archive.

Note that only public data will be archived. If your project has private data, such as issues with the Restrict-View-* label, you will no longer be able to browse those project resources next year. (Public downloads, issues, wikis, etc. will be available.)

Most importantly, project URLs (e.g. http://code.google.com/p/vim) will continue to work, although links to raw source code like https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/README.txt will not. But again, Google Code will continue to work as normal until at least January 2016.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact google-code-shutdown@google.com.