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Allow contributors to submit a GitHub URL for the aggregation of open-source without package file #49

Open elijah286 opened 4 years ago

elijah286 commented 4 years ago

Developers who have their LabVIEW source stored and managed on GitHub shall be able to submit the URL for their repository in order to have GCentral include the open source library in search results

The results page for the item would be expected to reflect standard artifacts to generate the meta data, including the Readme file, examples and any installation instructions.

If the Github page includes the package file, this will be served up on the webpage.

chrisb2244 commented 4 years ago

Released files (as given in releases) can be fetched using the API here: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/

For this to be practical I think GCentral would want to produce documentation as to what would be picked up from where (e.g. README.md, README.txt?... in root directory) and how that would be used to produce a GCentral entry/page.

How should GCentral deal with e.g. zip files in releases? Do nothing if it isn't a .nipkg, .vip, (.gpkg? not sure about extension here...) Or allow any "released file"?