On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Daniel Kinzler<[email protected]> wrote: >> it's interesting that the Toolserver turned out quite differently than we >> initially expected; i had hoped to create a community where people would work >> together to create useful tools, but instead we have isolated users who >> create >> their own tools (or in some cases, 10 copies of the same tool) and rarely >> work >> together. it's a shame; i think the former would be much more useful than >> what >> we have now... > > Increasing cooperation would be cool. One thing that might help is to promote > a > "toolbox", that is, a shared library of utilities to be used and maintained by > everyone. > > I suppose we should also rethink our permission model for svn repositories. > Without a shared repository, cooperation is much harder. > I think we should have a shared repository that is used by default. What is now the case is that every user has its own repository, which optionally can be shared. What should improve cooperation is a general toolserver repo which can be committed into by all toolserver users. It's a bit more the wiki principle.
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