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Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by 4ad »

nezo wrote: post #33
4ad wrote: post #18

None. I never click on stars. Projects that I care about have developer mailing lists, and mailing lists where people review and discuss patches. I subscribe to those. Projects that don't have that and only rely on GitHub are toy/non-serious projects that I don't care about. For bookmarking I have actual bookmarks.

I think there's a lot of nowadays SERIOUS projects that only rely on github ticket system. Mostly because that's the way pull request are handled.

Any project that uses Github pull requests is not serious.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by knd775 »

bsima wrote: post #7
tomkinstinch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Categorization like this would be great. I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."

Sounds like a GitHub bookmarking app would be useful, or a browser plugin...

Astral (http://astralapp.com/) has been mentioned in this thread and is great. It does exactly this.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by dimatura »

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

I have the same problem. I usually end up bookmarking to pinboard instead, where I can add tags.

Also, I often find bookmarking at the repo level too coarse - often I am only interested in a specific file or class.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by davegaeddert »

I give a repo a star if it's something I use or think there's a pretty good chance I'll use in the future (bookmarking). It also means I like to stay up-to-date with their development, as least at the surface level. I built http://sibbell.com for exactly that purpose - it will notify you any time a repo that you star (or watch) has a new release. I don't like to "watch" repos on GitHub though because on a project of any size, you get flooded with emails...
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