Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
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Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#2One feature I would love is a global code search that has the quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...) as a part of relevance ranking. A use case is simple: I have some library and I am not exactly sure how to use it, so I go into global code search and try to find usages of that method. First thing that comes would be some relevant code in a big context of a well engineered repository.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#3I'd like Cloudflare to not do a Google and let a thousand flowers bloom only to let most of them wither. They seem to be taking on a lot just with their new public VPN service.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#4The amount of business Cloudflare employees handle direct over Twitter, and the amount of responsiveness from their higher-ups on it is... kinda incredible. I imagine it's only practical because Cloudflare doesn't have a lot of public brand awareness beyond tech folks.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#5Please no, as a TOR user f*ck Cloudflare.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#6One feature I would love is a global code search that has the quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...) as a part of relevance ranking. A use case is simple: I have some library and I am not exactly sure how to use it, so I go into global code search and try to find usages of that method. First thing that comes would be some relevant code in a big context of a well engineered repository.
Why does the quality of the repo matter? Trying to understand the reasoning.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#7One feature I would love is a global code search that has the quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...) as a part of relevance ranking. A use case is simple: I have some library and I am not exactly sure how to use it, so I go into global code search and try to find usages of that method. First thing that comes would be some relevant code in a big context of a well engineered repository.
> quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...)
These two seem unrelated. Quality is not measured by popularity. There is plenty of popular stuff that's junk, and good stuff that nobody uses.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#8One feature I would love is a global code search that has the quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...) as a part of relevance ranking. A use case is simple: I have some library and I am not exactly sure how to use it, so I go into global code search and try to find usages of that method. First thing that comes would be some relevant code in a big context of a well engineered repository.
Why does the quality of the repo matter? Trying to understand the reasoning.
If you do such a search right now on Github you mostly get copies of example projects and other fairly useless repos.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#9Cloudflare folks. Please don’t do this. I don’t know if Mr.Cumming is serious.
As a user of CF, I hope you folks go a lot deeper than broader. Example: Better cache management – compete with Fastly, my tickets on load balancer bugs were open for almost 6 months, etc.
Re: Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
#10How about Github without a big corporation? Not controlled by Cloudflare, ddecentralized and uncensorable. Like bittorrent, but for git repos, issues, etc.