Explain Why This Wouldn’t Work
October 24, 2007 – 2:56 pmCould a development portal like SourceForge, Trac, or DrProject be built as a Facebook application? OK, that’s poorly-phrased: clearly, one could be. Would it make sense to do so? Privacy would be one big concern (esp. for non-open source projects), and I’d worry about it disappearing without warning due to a court order or an acquisition (but that’s a concern for SourceForge, Google Code, and every other hosted service too). On the other hand, a Remember The Milk-style shared to-do list would be straightforward… And a bunch of stuff like account provisioning would be taken care of for you… Hm…
One Response to “Explain Why This Wouldn’t Work”
Well, I have to ask… Why **would** it work? What advantages would it have over the current model? (except, of course, developers would spend even __more__ time on social networking sites… And they would have a valid excuse for it too!)
By David Wolever on Oct 24, 2007