From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T14:40:30+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 :)

It is a very good point (I just tried to write something like this).
Life shows, that "dumb social" systems works faster and better, than "smart
intellectual analysys".
At least, it sounds like something we can at minimum *try* to do (while
first idea sounded like "It would be nice if somebody already done this, but
personally I would never even try").

Victor.