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On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:24:39AM -0400, Will Kurt wrote: > Andrew, the pear.php.net repository site really > seems to be essentially what I was envisioning > (especially with the proposals section). > > Erik, there are several good reasons to build our > own rather than use space available in other > domains. The first and foremost is that the > library community is big enough and specific > enough to warrant its own centralized location for these things. > > Another issue is that there are a large range of > skills that are useful to library application > development that simply aren't touched on in > other areas. There are plenty of people who > understand AACR2, FRBR, LCSH etc that wouldn't go > near a place like sourceforge thinking there is no room for them there. > > Simple branding is another very important > reason. Google the phrase 'library open source' > and tell me if the results give you any sense > that the library community is actively developing > open source tools/libraries/applications/etc. to meet its needs. > > I've known a fair amount of library-staff who > work on little code projects in isolation, who if > they knew there was a larger project they could > work on and get involved with they would (this is > also true for the relatively large number of > ex-software developers I've met in libraries). > Snippets of code and various packages/libraries > need to be organized and collected, but the > larger aim would be to create a community of > people interested in creating open source software applications for > libraries. > > --Will > > > > At 05:12 PM 8/13/2007, you wrote: >> At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:25:58 -0400, >> Gabriel Farrell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > >> > In #code4lib today we discussed for a bit the possibility of setting up >> > something on code4lib.org for code hosting. The project that spurred >> > the discussion is Ed Summer's pymarc. The following is what I would >> > like to see: >> > >> > * projects live at code.code4lib.org, so pymarc, for example, would be >> > at code.code4lib.org/pymarc >> > * svn for version control >> > * trac interface for each >> > * hosted at OSU with the rest of code4lib.org, for now >> >> What will this offer that sf.net, codehaus.org, nongnu.org, >> savannah.gnu.org, code.google.com, gna.org, belios.de, etc. don???t? Why >> not simply link to >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities> >> and let people decide which they prefer? >> Will made some good points that I agree with, but the truth is I started this conversation because we have some projects that need a home here and now and, for a variety of reasons, none of the hosting options out there are as exciting as hosting the code ourselves. We might need to think more seriously about administration once we've got a couple dozen projects, but I say let's cross that bridge when we come to it. On a separate note, in the channel it seems either source.code4lib.org or src.code4lib.org are preferable to the rather redundant code.code4lib.org. >> Other people mentioned the sharing of code snippets; a wiki works best >> for sharing code snippets, examples, & single file source. See >> <http://emacswiki.org/> for a lively example. >> >> best, >> Erik Hetzner >> >