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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 electrum »

fenollp wrote: post #24
sauravt wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How else would you want it to be ?

GitHub could put up a voting user-oriented website much like the now discontinued Ubuntu Brainstorm. I have plenty of ideas for them… * allow symlinks in the gh-pages branch * do not `chmod u+x` every text file in zip archives * actually support `git-archive` * make rebasing of PRs easier * look for a contributor's code in a repo * when looking at a file, have a link showing current PRs editing it

Symlinks work for gh-pages. We use it for linking to the current version of the docs:

https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/gh-pages/docs

http://prestodb.io/docs/current/

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by aray »

jnbiche wrote: post #34

Strongly agree. Now that Github is being used as a de facto CV, it's really important for our Github page to show our strongest projects first. 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 sid…

When I was finishing university and looking for a job, I actually started deleting minor git repos that never really blossomed into bigger projects, because I was afraid of interviewers/potential employers going over those instead of the projects I was more proud of.

Now I kinda regret nuking all that work (didn't think to keep backups around), but a better solution for this would prevent anyone from doing similar in the future.

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by elwell »

cldwalker wrote: post #67
blatherard wrote: post #17

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 you're curious what contributions a user has made to their forks, I wrote a simple that breaks down # of commits per fork e.g. http://github-contributions.herokuapp.com/cldwalker

That's pretty cool, thanks!

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by fenollp »

electrum wrote: post #71
fenollp wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub could put up a voting user-oriented website much like the now discontinued Ubuntu Brainstorm. I have plenty of ideas for them… * allow symlinks in the gh-pages branch * do not `chmod u+x` every text file in zip archives * actually support `git-archive` * make rebasing of PRs easier * look for a contributor's code in a repo * when looking at a file, have a link showing current PRs editing it

Symlinks work for gh-pages. We use it for linking to the current version of the docs: https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/gh-pages/docs http://prestodb.io/docs/current/

Hey electrum, There is a discussion on this matter over [1]. Other people and I still cannot get symlinks to work on gh-pages. Do you have any idea why that is? It could be because of a free vs. business GitHub account…

Cheers

[1]: https://github.com/Sidnicious/gh-pages-symlink-test/issues/4

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by Dorian-Marie »

oddshocks wrote: post #50
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #15

Or you can also have a website where you do that

As other folks have mentioned, the issue is that many people looking to hire just look at your GitHub page and your repo list.

As someone you hires too, I do that, but also look at the website if there is any.
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