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Subject: Re: [OT]: Open Source ... was Re: Advocacy idea ...
From: clayton cottingham <drfrog@smartt.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:31:05 -0800
"Homsher, Dave V." wrote:
> >>Just don't post your code to the list itself. It's rude to
> >>bloat the mails on the list. Provide a hyperlink to your annotated code.
>
> True, but what happens after you get your answer? You take the code down and
> move on. It would be nice to have a place to post the code where it can be
> organized and filed away with comments for future reference.
>
> Also the idea would be more "code review" than "I have a problem". From my
> perspective, I would like to see how others are solving problems and how
> successful they were through a given solution. Maybe even have a moderating
> system so that good code/comments float to the top ???
>
> There are all kinds of bits and pieces of floating around the net and in
> print: CPAN, O'Reilly books, Mailing list, etc. I can read perldocs to see
> how a module is used, I can check out O'Reilly books for theory and simple
> examples, and I can ask a mailing list for help when I get stuck, but
> sometimes you don't know what module will help, you've read the O'Reilly
> books and the examples are too simple/don't apply, and you aren't even sure
> what question to ask the mailing list, what do you do? I bludgeon together
> some code and hope that is good enough. I don't really have anyone to review
> it and say "This is stupid".
>
> I realize that you will probably have people do the cut and paste thing, but
> if it's good code, is that really a problem - especially if there are
> comments, etc. and an explanation of how the code works/is supposed to work
> from the author??? I see this as both a code resource and a review forum ...
> Thoughts???
>
> Dave Homsher
> Webmaster,
> MACtac IT
freshmeat had an announcement of an app that might help, well at least
it says it trys!
http://freshmeat.net/projects/blackarts/
dunno if this is the right solution but if iread you right your looking
towards something like it!
a snippet of what it does
Blackarts is a tool for creating web based documentation
repositories from interesting information that shows up
in email. It was designed to solve the problem whereby
a company or association gathers important documentation
in email conversations that never gets recorded in a way
that is easily accessible later. Blackarts creates mail
gateways to multiple document repositories that have
tables of contents, sections and section crosslinking.
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