On 3/25/2010 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
I disagreed with this back in the day, and I still disagree with
running our own code repository. There are too many good code hosting
solutions out there for this to be justifiable. We used to run an SVN
repo at code4lib.org, but we never bothered rebuilding it after our
server got hacked.
Actually I think GitHub/Google Code and their ilk are a much better
solution -- especially for pastebins/gists/etc. What would be useful,
though, is an aggregation of the Code4lib's community spread across
these sites, sort of what like the Planet does for blog postings, etc.
or what Google Buzz does for the people I follow (i.e. I see their
gists).
I'd buy in to that (and help support it), but I'm not sure how one
would go about it.
-Ross.
I think the old discussion was looking more for a way to host code
snippets as opposed to version controlled projects, which I agree that
GitHub and the like already do nicely. Would we really need more than a
code4lib.pastebin.com? That being said, a code planet would be really
cool. I know that GitHub and BitBucket publish ATOM feeds of a user's
activity but I'm not so sure about other code hosting sites.
Anyways, just a thought...
Aaron
