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Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by oddshocks »

pearjuice wrote: post #25

Completely unrelated, but I couldn't stop laughing when I finished reading the article and saw "David Gay" as the post author at the bottom. Every time he introduces himself, reactions might range from hilarity to anger. Good for him to live with the pride of his ancestors and not changing his last name. Probably why the domain is oddshocks.com instead of his full name; I see it easily ending up on the wrong side of…

While I understand why folks voted this down, but it made me laugh. :) I never thought about the NSFW filter, but I believe domains that fit my full name were taken when I registered the domain.

When I was a little kid, my last name was a problem because of the times I grew up in, but nowadays it only leads to hilarity. Plus it's short and easy to spell. ;)

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by jordigh »

opendais wrote: post #43
jordigh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Allow me to actually change this in the code. I don't really get github. They hold everyone's code and encourage everyone to share code, but they don't share their own. This is why I left bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/3054/make-bitbucket-...

Have you tried https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce/ ?

Can I host my own gitlab instance and tell github users to pull from my gitlab instance? And can they do it with the usual interface that they use for closing github pull requests?

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by randunel »

oddshocks wrote: post #48
randunel wrote: post #19

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.

I didn't mean to devalue the challenge of implementing and testing a new feature. All I'm saying is that it wouldn't require much problem solving. It'd just be a sorted list, perhaps with the ability to reorder and resize items with some JavaScript. The GitHub devs are obviously skilled coders, and have many JavaScript ninjas among them.

Personally, I am under the same impression as yours. Adding a custom order functionality should not be that difficult, even with all these types of repos (forks, private, org, etc). I would benefit from such a feature, as would my colleagues. But maybe there's a deeply nested technical debt that prevents them from doing that atm.

I was just bringing up the similarity between your apparent devaluation of the challenges a new feature brings, with my project manager's ability of adding "sure, done by tomorrow" features during demos :D

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by opendais »

jordigh wrote: post #53
opendais wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce/ ?

Can I host my own gitlab instance and tell github users to pull from my gitlab instance? And can they do it with the usual interface that they use for closing github pull requests?

Ah, ya, you aren't going to be able to use Github's users on a Gitlab instance. It is like hosting your own copy of a Github-clone, basically. :/

You could write API integration between the two yourself but it wouldn't be that similar.

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by catshirt »

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #38

A lot of these solutions sound very complex. Sorting, tags, categories, grid, trees... 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."

i have almost 40 repositories. many private (because i don't want them to muddy up my Github image). a single boolean "featured" is terribly insufficient. tagging would be fantastic.

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by [deleted] »

arebours wrote: post #44
cwalcott wrote: post #11

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.

I think it would be awesome to be able to commit README for your user page. It would resolve the sorting problem too - you could just list your projects the way you like it (even with description for each of them).

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Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by andrewguenther »

catshirt wrote: post #56

if you only have 1 repository with more than 10 stars, sorting your work seems a like a premature optimization.

Employers aren't going to judge a project based on how many stars it has, that's the exact issue this is trying to address. One of the projects I am most proud of has no stars. Popularity has little bearing on how well designed or elegant a piece of code it.
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