[C.CC USERS] new home for code

Dennis Meade stone.misc at gmail.com
Sat May 1 00:43:33 BST 2010


If you prefer to keep the repositories where they are, I would at least 
consider Google Groups since they are a cross between a mailing list and 
a forum. It would be easier to go back and search of older discussions 
among other things, IMHO.


On 4/27/2010 9:10 PM, Matt Jadud wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dennis Meade<stone.misc at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Google offers pretty comprehensive open source hosting. You get subversion,
>> download, code browsing, a wiki, and issue tracking and you can establish
>> Google Groups in support of the project. Project Kenai  created by Sun
>> offers pretty much the same thing. Then there's SourceForge which offers
>> Subversion and most of the other stuff in a less pretty package.
>>      
> That's an interesting thought... we could create a community
> repository with (say) Google, and just share out the keys...
>
> Ultimately, I'm looking for a way we can all share what we're doing,
> and as it makes sense to do so, move things into the tree. That said,
> it might just make sense to give people access to parts of the tree.
> (That is, we could create a "community" directory, and give each of
> you read/write access to your own directory within the tree. This
> achieves the same thing, except keeps everything together.)
>
> I am not trying to "control" everything, by any stretch -- instead,
> I'm looking for a way for people to easily have their code in one
> place that everyone can play. Knowing that your explorations are part
> of the tree means that when you make things better, other people can
> update and get them, and the history for the file is part of the
> project. Migrating between repositories looses that.
>
> But, I usually over-analyze. Thoughts? Pushback?
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>    





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