I thought this thread was about my board :(

( wordforge )

I like the Idea!

Hmm, I thought we were about to be assimilated (vBorgforge) ... ;)

none the less...

(inevitable pun)

Resistance is futile :)

Dude, Borgs here, owner of wordforge...

Well such a mod wouldn't require any vB hacking - come on, you're not stupid enough to propose this is integrated into showthread are you? - so that wouldn't be the main reason why they say no.

But allow me to point out the hole in this:
* The fact that not everybody would want strangers messing about with their coding.
Okay, so Joe releases his "mack"..? sod that, hack in such a repos, but he doesn't really know anybody on vBorg well enough, or they are merely members and not much of coders, so he doesn't add anyone to the dev team of his hack.
Guess what, we are back to square [insert complicated maths function that inevitably results in 1].
The only way to avoid Jane's code being lost is if Joe releases his hack with an open repos, so Jane can just fix the file herself. I won't even begin to list the multiple of reasons why this will never happen.

Unless theres something I was missing? Hm?

Well negative Nancy ;)

I am sure there would be intances where there was only 1 developer per project... but there would be many more (and far more projects) if teams could work together. It would give far more life to projects and far better results.

As far as integration into showthread... I dont see why the forums would not be as they are... there has already been hints that a mack db may be created which might mean a seperate section for them... this would fit perfectly into that concept with a link in the first post pointing toward that.