1) At the top of the sidebar, there's an "Activity" label with a little cellphone-reception-style indicator icon. Clicking on it shows you a list of checkins, bug updates, and wiki modifications.
2) It's up to the project to show usage examples. Given that Google Code projects have a wiki page as the first thing you see, the examples can be in an even more prominent place than on GitHub.
3) Yeah, there's an extra click and some manual text selection here.
I don't know. I think it strikes a decent balance between letting developers get to the information they want and not scaring off non-technical users.
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1) At the top of the sidebar, there's an "Activity" label with a little cellphone-reception-style indicator icon. Clicking on it shows you a list of checkins, bug updates, and wiki modifications.
2) It's up to the project to show usage examples. Given that Google Code projects have a wiki page as the first thing you see, the examples can be in an even more prominent place than on GitHub.
3) Yeah, there's an extra click and some manual text selection here.
I don't know. I think it strikes a decent balance between letting developers get to the information they want and not scaring off non-technical users.