Git, Github, ColdFusion, and Open Source

December 13, 2009 · 2 Comments

ColdFusion (CF) has many open source projects and needs better collaboration.

Have you ever downloaded an open source project and made some changes?
Are you currently using and advancing a "dead" open source project?
Have you ever added a feature to an open source project but it may not be part of the core project and wanted to make it available for others?

Better collaboration

Better collaboration will help CF and CF open source projects. I propose ColdFusion separtist start adding their projects on Github.com to leverage the ColdFusion Galactic Empire. The project creators will rule their project while allowing interstellar factions to work on their project.

Benevolent dictator workflow

Various representatives

Here are various representatives of the ColdFusion Galactic Empire, I would like to see on GitHub. It is a simple import if using SVN.

POI Utility ColdFusion - Component converts Excel files to ColdFusion queries and ColdFusion queries to Excel files.
by Ben Nadel

Galleon ColdFusion Forums - Galleon is a forums application built in ColdFusion.
by Raymond Camden

Mango Blog - An extensible blog engine
by Laura Arguello

If the project owner doesn't want to moving their whole project just the code would help collaboration. Simply create a Github project and add the codebase as is. And let your followers know it is available.

Leaders on git

Other ColdFusion Galactic Empire leaders mentioning git.

Learning about Git

Git, Github, ColdFusion, and Open Source

Tags: coldfusion · git

2 responses so far ↓

1 J. Knight // Dec 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM

I think git and the open source ideology go hand-in-hand. In any project where collaboration is desired, git will work a lot better than something like subversion. However a lot of open source projects don't have a lot of collaboration. I don't know if thats a good or bad thing, but if they don't have collaboration they don't really need the benefits of git. But maybe if they used git they would see some of the benefits of collaboration?
2 Dark Lord // Dec 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM

If ColdFusion open source projects were migrated to Github.com, they would see benefits of collaboration.

But I think it is up to the open source project to decide what to accept into their project while not hindering collaboration and advancement.

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