A Centralized Code Dump?

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm skeptical of the usefulness of wiki for this, since you'd be reduced to cutting and pasting code from the articles. Not to mention it'd be more difficult to group a build of code together with all its include files, etc. Sourceforge or some other system designed with code in mind would still probably be more useful.

I'm with Dave, though. A FIRST sponsored and organized site would probably work better and have a higher profile.

[Max Lobovsky]

It's pretty easy to group files together. You can organize pages by adding them to categories that generate automatic listings of all elements in the categories (and can have subcategories) and you can mimic a file structure by just making the name of the page the name of the file ("/Kevin's Code/sensor stuff/sensor.c").

I know its not ideal, but its up and running now, and stuff can always be moved to a more useful storage later.

My main concern with some custom software is that it will fall into disrepair if it is something that only the FIRST community is using and that it will be too difficult to migrate to a different software (witness the old NRG repository). If MediaWiki software isn't the best, at least try to use some established piece of software so we can be assured of its longevity.

[Bharat Nain]

SoundForge is better suited for this purpose as it is designed for such things. Wiki is good for overall data storage. Maybe we could use it as backup. As Dave said, lets wait till Jan.8 and see what happens. Or we could form something like FIRST Scouting Network and work our way from there. But I know that we definitely need some kind of place to store useful code and such.

-Bharat

[Max Lobovsky]

The way SilverStar set up the SourceForge repository, it definitley is not an ideal solution. All submitions had to be posted in a sort of comment and reviewed by him. There was no easy CVS access (well, CVS would probably be too difficult for this, too. The majority of teams are not familiar with it).

The best dedicated solution that I know of is GraalForge, but again, I think that it is kind over complicated considering that the majority of code pieces being submitted will be in the <50 line range.

[colt527]

Well, i was going to make a code dump for my teams website anyway. So if FIRST does release one I can use this for my teams site. I like making things from scratch (I just have urges to re-invent the wheel). I have pretty much everything already made, such as a user system and a file system, so with some merging its really not to much of a drudgery task to create one from scratch for me. So, we'll see what happens.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by colt527

I like making things from scratch (I just have urges to re-invent the wheel)

So i'm not the only one!

[doyler]

That sounds like a great idea (the original code dump idea)

It would make things easier for up and coming programmers such as myself to find things and learn them