On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Quim Gil <quimgil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For instance, Twitter, Facebook etc are
actually pushing open source projects themselves, but they don't mix
those in their developer pages unless you dive deep and almost knowing
what you are looking for.
Can I haz Facebook tarball? In seriousness, the utter open sourceness
of our codebase is what sets us apart, so we should make it clear
pretty prominently on our dev hub. For most platforms, cool open
source side projects notwithstanding, the API/SDK is all you get to
talk to the core platform - in our case you get the platform itself.
So I don't agree that we should point folks to the API first, and to
the platform second.
With that said, I agree that the dev hub currently is pretty much
inside baseball and we should try to make it more understandable if we
prominently link it from every footer of every page.
Erik
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