So I’m rather close to deploying a closed beta test of something that I’ve been working on in my spare time for a while now.
The basic idea is that you can browse a copy of the Mac OS X filesystem, and any registered user can attach “annotations” to a file or directory explaining what that file does. This is done with a wiki-like system, so any user can edit the annotations, or roll back to previous versions.
The main impetus behind this was me trying to train up someone at work to take over the radmind setup we have. It really doesn’t take long to learn how something like radmind works, but what does take time is working out exactly what files do, and whether you should include a particular file in any given transcript or not.
Thus the name “wtfdtfd” == “wtf does this file do?” …
It’s also been a way for me to finally start a proper project in Ruby on Rails, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.
I’ll be opening up the source to interested people after I deploy it, so if you’re interested in taking part in either coding or a private beta, send me an email by clicking on the “About” tab at the top.
Edit:
If you want to take part, the easiest way is to subscribe to the dev-list, which you can do by clicking on this link.
Thanks for the input people, it’s looking good…. :)
Very very interesting project!
I don’t have the knowledge for partecipating to the coding or private beta but I’m eagerly waiting for the first public release.
Cool! It reminds me of some older apps for OS9, not that I can remember their names… InformINIT perhaps?
There was something for OS 9 that gave you information like this about Extensions and Control Panels I think?
It wasn’t Web 2.0 though.
(that was a joke btw… I’d hate for anyone to think I was serious… :) )