[Resolved] Peer Code Review

[wey97]

How would someone go about having code he/she thought could be useful, reviewed and improved by a group of other coders? A forum would be the ideal place to have numerous developers review your code, but...

No offense to anyone on VBF, but let's say I post my code here and it's popular, I don't want anyone who'd like to use my code doing so without giving me credit or saying it was his/her idea.

It would be nice if the group members had specific rules to abide by. For example, every member that joined would agree that any code submitted for review by another member could not be credited as his/her own work or used without crediting the original author.

[RhinoBull]

I could understand your concern if it's [the piece of code] something very unique but quite frankly you cannot expect pointers to original author every time you submit something like the following VB code:

Dim ctl As Control
 
For each ctl In Me.Controls
    'and so on...
Next ctl

This is a public forum after all and we are here to share thoughts/ideas - not copyrights - so I have no problem if someone "forgets you" ... but it's always nice if they do "remember", indeed.

[wey97]

I could understand your concern if it's [the piece of code] something very unique but quite frankly you cannot expect pointers to original author every time you submit something like the following VB code:

Dim ctl As Control
 
For each ctl In Me.Controls
    'and so on...
Next ctl

This is a public forum after all and we are here to share thoughts/ideas - not copyrights - so I have no problem if someone "forgets you" ... but it's always nice if they do "remember", indeed.

I see what you mean but this isn't as simple as a VB control loop.

I'm developing a platform in C++ for rapid windows client development. I've spent countless hours on the subject and have gotten some help here along the way. I was wondering if anyone knows of a group designed for this type of thing. That way you aren't releasing your code to the entire world without having a little bit of acknowledgment and standardization.

This would be an open source project similar to the Boost project. I wouldn't expect someone to try and pass the Boost code as their own.

[Hack]

If it is in C++ then I would suggest going to the C++ section of this forum and take a look at some of the member Ids that do most on the question answering as opposed to the question asking.

Once you have a couple of names, I would send them a PM explaining what you would like, and ask if they would be willing to test your project for you.

If so, then you could exchange EMail address and work through the testing process that way.

[RhinoBull]

I see what you mean but this isn't as simple as a VB control loop.

I'm developing a platform in C++ for rapid windows client development. I've spent countless hours on the subject and have gotten some help here along the way. I was wondering if anyone knows of a group designed for this type of thing. That way you aren't releasing your code to the entire world without having a little bit of acknowledgment and standardization.

This would be an open source project similar to the Boost project. I wouldn't expect someone to try and pass the Boost code as their own.

Language is irrelevant - that was just a quick sample. In your "open source" you will have plenty of code that was written many times so you can't really claim it's totally yours... There is always a trade off with the "open source" you know... You may protect entire product but not some blocks of code that you might've learnt from elsewhere...

[wey97]

Language is irrelevant - that was just a quick sample. In your "open source" you will have plenty of code that was written many times so you can't really claim it's totally yours... There is always a trade off with the "open source" you know... You may protect entire product but not some blocks of code that you might've learnt from elsewhere...

Maybe I'm not making this very clear or I may even be over thinking this a little.

I wouldn't be saying that I wrote all of the code. I would just want to be able to post credit to a member for his/her contributions or unique ideas. I'm not very familiar with many open source projects, but I do know basically anyone is free to modify and use the code any way he chooses, right?

Maybe this would be good to post on something like Source Forge or The Code Project. Just looking for some ideas.

[Hack]

I'm not very familiar with many open source projects, but I do know basically anyone is free to modify and use the code any way he chooses, right?

Generally, this is how open source programs work, yes.