Plus'ing it is one thing, but I have no idea what such a thing would actually look like (interface-wise), or how it would be accomplished. I'm not sure what it means exactly. It's an interesting idea, but anyone have any idea what it would actually look like?
Hmm, an aggregated feed of the commit logs (from repos that offer feeds, as most do), of "open source projects of interest to the code4lib community." Would that be at all useful?
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From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jodi Schneider [jschneider_at_pobox.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 5:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet code4lib code (was: newbie)
codeplanet.code4lib.org++
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Birkin James Diana
<birkin_diana_at_brown.edu>wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
>
> > ...GitHub/Google Code and their ilk... ...What would be useful... ...is
> an aggregation of the Code4lib's community spread across these sites, sort
> of what like the Planet does for blog postings...
>
> I love this idea.
>
> -b
>
> ---
> Birkin James Diana
> Programmer, Integrated Technology Services
> Brown University Library
> birkin_diana_at_brown.edu
> birkinbrown_at_googlewave.com
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Aaron Rubinstein
> > <arubinst_at_library.umass.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> This is some of the best advice. Reading and adapting good code has
> been my
> >> favorite way to learn. There was a discussion a couple years back on a
> >> code4lib code repository of some kind[1]. I'd love to resurrect this
> idea.
> >> A private pastebin[2] might be a decent option. I also know that a
> number
> >> of us use GitHub[3], which allows for collecting syntax highlighted code
> >> snippets and has some nifty social networking features that let you
> follow
> >> other coders and projects. GitHub is certainly not a solution for a
> >> code4lib repository but is another way to share code and learn from each
> >> other.
> >>
> >
> > 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.
>
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