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Open wiki-like code repositoryHere is a crazy thought experiment: Take your favorite programming language and create a project in your favorite IDE (say C# and Visual Studio, but Scala and Eclipse or Haskell and Emacs would also work). Now imagine that this project is shared by you and a thousand of your closest programming friends. Everyone can edit the project, and you are pushed contributions in real time without any vetting. The idea is to collaborate building a library in an organic way that precludes a centralized maintainer/gatekeeper/project manager. Rather, you and everyone else could review code changes by other people, revert when vandalism occurs, or ensure that standards are met from people you don't know very well and may just be casual contributors. Yes, like a wiki. Now, here are some of the questions that I can think:
Not really expecting answers, but thoughts and other questions. By Sean McDirmid at 2009-12-30 01:51 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 28964 reads
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