On 9 Jul 2015, at 8:51 am, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
I feel github as a very difficult environment, recently I've been discouraged one more since I found that I can't install current version of the software into my PC, that runs Windows XP. Unluckily, both my skills and my hardware are poor.
IMHO it could be an idea to couple github repository with one centralized wikisource page (into oldwikisource?) where to post "code stubs" far from optimized, but sometimes running decent ideas, that could inspire sufficiently skilled programmers.
Github has one possible solution for this problem, called Gists (https://gist.github.com/) — a Gist is one or more files stored online and available for sharing or download with minimal information on who created them. Github tracks the version history of the files, who contributed to it, and allows any user to “fork” (duplicate) a Gist, while preserving the previous version history and linking back to the original Gist. That’s what I use to store and share code stubs! If you want to see what it looks like, here is a script I used to find a list of US places that had the same name as a state: https://gist.github.com/gaurav/1208725
cheers, Gaurav