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Open-sourciness Score ("Forkability") #8

Open basicallydan opened 10 years ago

basicallydan commented 10 years ago

Inspired by #7 but more far-reaching! Want to encourage people to contribute to your project? Type in the GitHub URL and this tool will give you a score for how forkable your project is. Possible things to use for a measure:

Using these metrics we can suggest to the user how they can improve the forkability, with examples and best practices. These last two are vital. My hunch is that lack of examples is the biggest thing stopping people from doing things right. It certainly slows me down a lot of the time.

TL;DR: Google Webmaster Tools for GitHub Open Source projects.

timruffles commented 10 years ago

great idea

petems commented 10 years ago

Dont forget if there's a LICENSE.md file! :+1:

ifraixedes commented 10 years ago

I liked it and as a superset of my idea; I'm not sure if it should be in the same project, so creating different ones give the chance to the people to use or fork one of them to fit their needs.

Should I close my issue in favour of it?

timruffles commented 10 years ago

sounds like this is the frontend to your project linter

On 19 August 2014 18:05, Ivan Fraixedes notifications@github.com wrote:

I liked it and as a superset of my idea; I'm not sure if it should be in the same project, so creating different ones give the chance to the people to use or fork one of them to fit their needs.

Should I close my issue in favour of it?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/opensauceit/ideas/issues/8#issuecomment-52665691.

ifraixedes commented 10 years ago

Although it specifies the things to assess

basicallydan commented 10 years ago

Thanks! I can't make this month's Meetup, I'm on holiday. So if you make any progress or chat about my idea pleaaaaase post it here :) On 19 Aug 2014 11:31, "Tim Ruffles" notifications@github.com wrote:

great idea

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ifraixedes commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately, tomorrow I cannot make either. I'm looking forward to being able to attend next time.

Enjoy

basicallydan commented 10 years ago

In case any of you lot are interested I decided to try this out: https://basicallydan.github.io/forkability

It's fairly simple at the mo in terms of what it checks, but I'd love some input :)