{"id":366,"date":"2006-08-09T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:45:28","slug":"google-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/366","title":{"rendered":"Google Projects?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update, 9:57am: Well, I feel a bit foolish. Looks like Google is planning to host some open source projects<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian thinks the world needs google projects<\/a>. Unlike Brian, I am not a committer on any open source project, but I do use<\/a> a fair<\/a> number<\/a>. I also have believed in the principles of open source for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Does the world need yet another projects website? As I said above, I can’t speak for committers, but as a user of their work, I’d like the environment to be as productive as possible for them (how generous of me, no?).<\/p>\n

But as a user, I can tell you that a real problem is just finding some of the great work that has already been done. As an example, Google and Yahoo had no idea that the CalendarTag library<\/a> was out there, at least in the first 30 pages of results. Perhaps I was choosing poor keywords, but I had a tough time finding what I was looking for. Perhaps a microformat<\/a> for open source software projects would help?<\/p>\n

SourceForge has flaws, but the fact is that its search found what I was looking for, probably because SourceForge search is by nature limited to software projects. The fact that you have to go through three pages to download a tarball is an annoyance, but not a capital one. It’s overweighed by the fact that SF has a enormous number of projects (126,520, as of today) and is relatively fast.
\nBrian and I are approaching the problem of a new projects database from different perspectives, but I believe that one very real problem in management of open source projects is location of the appropriate project; search in other words. Sites like CMSMatrix<\/a> are a start, but don’t work as well for smaller components. And adding Google Projects to the mix isn’t going to solve this problem.<\/p>\n

[tags]Google, project management, SourceForge[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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