Filter projects by language

[imported-from-roundup]

Comment by umang:

Hi, Forgive me if I've missed the link to a page that already does this, but I can't seem to get a list of projects that are written in a certain language.

This would be useful because very often it's finding the project that's more important than finding the bug. Once you've found the project, the upstream bug tracker will be far more useful if you are going to contribute more than a couple of times.

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Comment by pythonian4000:

This bug is being tracked in https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue246

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Status: chatting Nosy List: palhmbs, umang Priority: feature Imported from roundup ID: 92 (view archived page) Last modified: 2011-07-02.20:38:13

[ehashman]

While issue246 (that's now #561) was supposed to address this, it was closed as stale. This would be an interesting feature to add to the current /projects/ page.

[moijes12]

If I get this right, then this feature when implemented would serve the purpose of listing all the projects that are in a particular language OR which have issues (very likely, bite-size) for new contributors in a given language. For example, we might be looking for projects with opportunities to contribute in Python. If this is case, then I guess this is possible by filtering using language, see the attached screenshot:

[paulproteus]

Oh -- @moijes12 -- thank you for the comment!

This bug, as I read it, refers to the openhatch.org/projects/ page, which we have never prioritized making be awesome.

I kind of wonder if we should just delete it, if we're not maintaining it. Perhaps we should keep it around temporarily until we make a sitemap. Curious what @willingc or others make of this.

But at least now the contents of this bug may be slightly clearer.

[willingc]

@paulproteus, @moijes12 I spent some time looking at this issue. It's already confusing and only likely to get more so with more comments for the simple reason that the issue covers more than one topic.

My recommendation would be to close this issue and open three new issues labeled as enhancements:

• A. Enhancement - Redesign Volunteer Opportunities Page layout (accessed by https://openhatch.org/search/ and by choosing Projects from the top menu bar)

• B. Enhancement - Add toggle to Volunteer Opportunities Page search results to collapse/expand results by project name

• C. Enhancement - Add ability to search and/or filter project by Primary Language Used from the Projects Page (https://openhatch.org/projects)

From direct entry https://openhatch.org/projects/ (Note: this is NOT where the Projects option at the top menu directs) or selecting See all under Projects section from Volunteer Opportunities Page, this is the page displayed:

The Projects page has a field for Primary Language Used which could be used as an additional or new search option.

Thoughts?