Seems Google has been busy lately, announcing their Google Code Project Hosting at OSCON. NewsForge has an interview with Greg Stein and Chris DiBona about the new offering. More comments on the new service can be found at Slashdot and Techcrunch.
From the very beginning Greg came out and said that they aren’t competing with SourceForge.net. At some level this is certainly true because the feature set that Google is targeting is different that SF (SourceForge). In general though this is direct competition to SF, and it is good to see. SF has had problems for years and have never really been able to keep up with the demand. It isn’t clear that Google will be able to either, but hopefully the competition will drive everyone to be better.