What I have witnessed so far in the programming aspect of FIRST, is kind of like when a team builds a new gearing mechanism to drive their robot. They are happy to share their designs from prior years, but they like to keep their current designs top secret until the competition season begins.
There is nothing wrong with this, after all, it is a competition. As long as we all continue to share the code from previous years, and help any new teams or new programmers out with any questions they have, it should all be just fine =)
Oh, and do we really need a separate site to share code? I notice this board would work just the same
