Question

I have a project in mind, here’s the pitch.

When I come to a new workspace, school, a friends computer and want to check all my favorite blogs, log into facebook, SO and all other amazing websites. I find that it’s always a site that i forget to visit. The solution to this is to bookmark the site. However, should I always store the bookmarks on a USB-stick? I think not.

I’d like to se an Open Bookmark Standard where all common browsers supports an Online OpenID-using service which will help to store all favorite pages, using rss to keep track of page changes and much more fun features to be implemented.

Now, stop me if im wrong here, but theres no such thing out there? And I feel obligated to start the development process on this. And i recently wrote a text about issues when adapting outsorucing / open source projects, in the manner of communication.

So, if i want to start this process, which services would I use to provide the Source, Documents and other plans?

What language do i concider using to get the eyes of as many developers as possible?

when the language is set, what specific development patterns would be most common to use?

How do you control an open source project, in the manner; People should not submit ‘bad’ code? Are there any good tools for overviewing big changes in documents? Does SVN have a good system for monitoring this?

If this project is manageable and good ( don’t argument if this is good or not ), how do one get this as a ‘standard’?

Answer 1

I’d recommend to use Google Code to host OSS project for its powerful simplicity (just like the Gmail or google search). It has:

• SVN (with nice web view)
• Wiki
• Issue tracker
• Downloads
• integration with other google services
• Scalability and responsiveness.

And I definitely do not recommend SourceForge. I do not like it for:

• Really slow SVN
• They can ban your IP if you poll SVN too often (so no continuous integration)
• Complex UI