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Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by niggler »

Hawkee wrote: post #19
niggler wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO it's a bad thing. Too many projects and services depend on github so that downtime represents a systemic risk (homebrew was unusable during the downtime last week). Sure, you have your code backed up, but you don't necessarily have your issue tracker or gists backed up. Now using GitHub for user credentials makes things even worse. Soon we'll see horror stories involving github being down ...

You can say the same for Twitter, Facebook and Google. There is always the potential for downtime, but users generally don't want to create more accounts. I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Plus, sites that use GitHub logins are much more appealing to developers rather than sites that use Facebook or Twitter logins.

Haha Facebook. On 90% of show HN posts involving Facebook logins the top or second to top comment is something like "Facebook login is a nonstarter"

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by wise_young_man »

I like where this is going. I blogged about this very topic a few months ago http://derekmyers.com/open-source-information-overload. If you watch/star as many repos as I do then you realize the problem is clear. Discovering and filtering repos is incredibly difficult, but the vast resources are there and growing at an even more incredible rate.

Say you are a web designer who just found out about GitHub (I know right?), then what would their first steps look like? Maybe spend hours googling around random sites discovering outdated "10 popular plugins for Bootstrap" kind of stuff. I think this applies to all kinds of things as well.

I also think this is one of the reasons they took on funding to figure out these problems. I had been contemplating adding similar functionality to my GitHub web app. I kind of think they should start an app marketplace (I know YAAM) to bring additional functionality beyond the scope of GitHub that wants to manage (ex: they killed off messages), I realize they have Services, but I don't think that is clearly enough, similar to how Facebook recently added App Center.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by wise_young_man »

niggler wrote: post #11
Hawkee wrote: post #9

Very good to see more sites utilizing the GitHub API. I do have a few comments to make though. First, you mention badges on the homepage, but this feature isn't complete so I don't think its even necessary to mention it yet. Second, the search is somewhat confusing. I'd love just a single search box at the top of the site where I can type whatever I'd like. Maybe make the current search the "Advanced Search". Third,…

IMHO it's a bad thing. Too many projects and services depend on github so that downtime represents a systemic risk (homebrew was unusable during the downtime last week). Sure, you have your code backed up, but you don't necessarily have your issue tracker or gists backed up. Now using GitHub for user credentials makes things even worse. Soon we'll see horror stories involving github being down ...

Since git is distributed, they could just have a mirror on Bitbucket.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by mamcx »

You know what I love to know? Which branch is the most uptodate! The network page of github is slow and hard to see what is going on.

Some repos become dead then I look for forks to see if somebody fix it or improve it. Normally, I need to open several forks to select one.

I imagine a interface like a leaderboard where the most uptodate and with more commits lead the pack...

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by rabialam »

Awesome! Such a pain point that needs an actual solution -- I'm honestly pretty underwhelmed with GitHub for not providing this kind of functionality in the first place. Glad someone took the initiative to do something not just cool, but so very necessary with the GitHub API.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by seliopou »

mamcx wrote: post #27

You know what I love to know? Which branch is the most uptodate! The network page of github is slow and hard to see what is going on. Some repos become dead then I look for forks to see if somebody fix it or improve it. Normally, I need to open several forks to select one. I imagine a interface like a leaderboard where the most uptodate and with more commits lead the pack...

On GitHub there's a "Branches" tab for each repo which lists how many commits ahead or behind master each branch is. Sounds like it's close to what you're looking for.
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