On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Daniel Kinzlerdaniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
it's interesting that the Toolserver turned out quite differently than we initially expected; i had hoped to create a community where people would work together to create useful tools, but instead we have isolated users who create their own tools (or in some cases, 10 copies of the same tool) and rarely work together. it's a shame; i think the former would be much more useful than what we have now...
Increasing cooperation would be cool. One thing that might help is to promote a "toolbox", that is, a shared library of utilities to be used and maintained by everyone.
I suppose we should also rethink our permission model for svn repositories. Without a shared repository, cooperation is much harder.
I think we should have a shared repository that is used by default. What is now the case is that every user has its own repository, which optionally can be shared. What should improve cooperation is a general toolserver repo which can be committed into by all toolserver users. It's a bit more the wiki principle.
Bryan