Share your code
Posted Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:57:00 GMT
I’ve got this pretty small project that I’m doing for myself and friends. It’s just a small web-site we have for fun. I don’t have that much time at the mo to work on it, so a friend suggested he’d do some of the work.
The first thing that came to mind was “right, cool, we’ll just make a CVS repository somewhere and work on it together”. That way we’re not growing out of sync, I can see what he’s doing (he’s not that experienced) and I know he’s not broken it cause I and everyone else can try to build before committing.
Except, I don’t have the time and desire to run and manage a CVS server. So, quite naturally, I thought there’d be a place on the net somewhere which offers free source control repositories. After all you can share your pictures, share your thoughts (in a blog), share your documents (google docs), share your calendar, all that for free, why shouldn’t you be able to share your code??? And, sorry, I don’t mean sourceforge - this is not an open source project and I don’t want to be bound by some licenses too long for me to read.
Well, my search has been unsuccessful so far. If anyone knows a place where you can share your code with a few other people, please write to me!
What about non traditional source control. Some of the decentralised options might suit. Basically the issue you guys have is having a centralised 24/7 repository. So maybe something like Darcs would be a better option. Instead of the single repository, you choose who you want to branch off, and then upload your changesets and download the latest version etc from that branch. Much more the linux model. BTW this is not a recommendation, just a suggestion to think outside the box. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
I realise it might be a non-starter if its complicated to setup and use. but I thought I should still throw it out there.