From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T14:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Drops

On 4/28/06, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@gmail.com> wrote:
> Come on, it can't be that bad of an idea! Is this really going to go
> over that badly if I submit this as a project proposal?

I think that this idea would work better as a social network which
tied together Ruby projects via tagging and rss feeds and all that
other yummy stuff.

Basically, rather than trying to accomplish the very hard task of
trying to compare ruby code, where there are often many ways to do
things (and let's not even consider meta-programming!)  we tie
projects together through a bunch of community maintained meta-data
which helps support DROP.

This might include open commenting systems on the source code, so that
people can review the code live, things which automatically sense
similar projects or similar dependencies and things like that, and
just the general cool stuff that well set up social network could
provide.

I think it would be technically impossible to implement a good
automated solution to find duplicated code.  This is a more human
oriented option which could be helpful and a lot of fun.

Plus... you still have a project here... it could be implemented
nicely in Rails or Nitro or something :)