One of the things that occurred to me while I was putting GIT repositories up the other day is "why not Wikisource"? In other words, why does no one put up source code to be edited and commented by the general public, in the style of Ward Cunningham's original Wiki or of Wikipedia?…
I'm guessing that part of it has been the popular idea that code is valuable and editable only by the few, while text is cheap and almost anyone can usefully edit it. This seems to me to be highly exaggerated these days, though.
I'm also guessing that it has something to do with existing repositories. I think to try the experiment I'd want a version of GIT that oesn't allow irrevocable deletion of revisions except by an administrator. It might also be important to limit branching somehow, to avoid everybody taking off in their own direction with the code too badly?
Anyone want to help me hack up gitd to enforce some minor restrictions, and then try the experiment? I'd be really curious how it turns out, and am happy to put up some code for it.
What do you folks think? (B)