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[1] Strangely github.io pages bookmark just fine.
Another GitHub nuisance: I'm a huge fan of pinboard.in and use the Firefox popup bookmarklet quite a bit but github repositories [1] won't let me bookmark them with the bookmarklet. GitHub repositories are literally the only pages I've found the I haven't been able to use the pinboard bookmarklet, and it's been that way with every single GitHub repository I've tried to pinboard. [1] Strangely github.io pages bookmark…
I just experienced the other side of this problem yesterday. I was checking out a job applicant who had a lot of repositories and I couldn't easily figure out which ones really mattered. Fortunately, he also had his own portfolio site. The github profile was effectively useless.
If some silly project I contributed to 4 years ago pops up first on my Github page, most potential clients and/or employers are not going to make the effort to scroll through pages of projects to find the projects most representative of my current abilities.
On the bright side, this exact phenomenon has led me to go back and clean up a few projects of mine that became unexpectedly popular. Now they have documentation and updates that I probably wouldn't have made otherwise (although their popularity alone also propelled me to make these changes).
If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.
And tag them also. And also tag our gists.
He sounds like my project manager, when adding a new feature just by mentioning it during a demo, and sees our faces: "What I'm asking wouldn't be hard at all" :)) Unless you're intimately involved with the project or a guru in similar projects, you've got no idea whether any feature would be hard / simple, time-consuming/interesting.
That's why they should be taking PRs.
How about just showing my repos that I starred at the top? Or if you want to get slightly more complex, a "Feature" button similar to "Star."
If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.
Well there's still GitHub pages...