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A spreadsheet of lightweight Linux laptops for hackers

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Re: A spreadsheet of lightweight Linux laptops for hackers

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Post by pde3 »

headcanon wrote: post #5
minieggs wrote: post #2

That didn't last long.

I think you'd be better off with a git repo, then you can review pull requests for data, instead of a public spreadsheet that is editable by anyone. Sheets doesn't really have a "request to modify" system (that I know of).

Which is what stopped me from using them for some serious crowdsourced data projects in the past. This was a sheet I had lying around anyway and thought others might find useful :)

Might be nice to have someone define a clean 1:1 mapping between a google sheet/airtable and a git repo...

Re: A spreadsheet of lightweight Linux laptops for hackers

#13

Post by headcanon »

pde3 wrote: post #12
headcanon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you'd be better off with a git repo, then you can review pull requests for data, instead of a public spreadsheet that is editable by anyone. Sheets doesn't really have a "request to modify" system (that I know of).

Which is what stopped me from using them for some serious crowdsourced data projects in the past. This was a sheet I had lying around anyway and thought others might find useful :) Might be nice to have someone define a clean 1:1 mapping between a google sheet/airtable and a git repo...

Github can already render views of csv data - not quite what you're saying but I think it would be good enough for these purposes.
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