Which badges to use?

[nottrobin]

I like putting badges on our repos. The obvious ones to have for every repo are CircleCI and Codecov.

Other ones we could consider:

General

• a good-first-issue counter
• david-dm for NPM dependencies
• Something for our requirements.txt dependencies

Websites

• uptime from https://uptimerobot.com/
• find a way to automatically display the version of Vanilla Framework we use?

Packages

• latest stable release version
• semver version
• package downloads

What do people think? Are these valuable? Should we use any others?

[barrymcgee]

These look like a good start to me. 👍🏻

[nottrobin]

We can display versions from package.json as follows - e.g. "node-sass" from www.ubuntu.com repo:

https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fcanonical-websites%2Fwww.ubuntu.com%2Fmaster%2Fpackage.json&label=node-sass&query=$.dependencies[%22node-sass%22]&colorB=blue

[nottrobin]

One more suggestion - codeclimate? https://codeclimate.com/github/canonical-webteam/yaml-responses

[nottrobin]

Useful examples:

• http://thomas-cokelaer.info/blog/2014/08/1013/
• https://github.com/dwyl/repo-badges
• https://github.com/Naereen/badges