Proposal for better gatekeeping: stick to masterpiece materials

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Proposal for better gatekeeping: stick to masterpiece materials #143

Open guilsa opened 6 years ago

guilsa commented 6 years ago

Description

Can we please refrain from adding things if content isn’t unique?

Why

I’ve been following the changes happening lately and I’m concerned making changes to this repo is turning into a popularity contest. Below are a few reasons why.

Possible Implementations

I propose contributors ask themselves these questions before opening a PR:

Does the writing follow a unique pedagogy?
Does the writing put you outside your comfort zone by taking an unfamiliar and scary topic and making you happy, instead of overwhelmed?
Is the writing from a portal, aggregator or a commercial site (constains ads, etc)? That should be a yellow flag as these places favor breath over depth.

A few other random points:

I would prefer that topics endure test of time and that they stay away from frameworks. Thoughts here?
If we link to an aggregator site, we defeat the point of being curators here.

Is this something you're interested in working on?

[x] YES
[ ] NO

tuvtran commented 6 years ago

I agree with your points. I'll admit that I haven't been able to pay enough attention to this project. I'll plan on purging some of the redundant tutorials. What do you think about putting them into a separate file like "Some other tutorials" which acts as a link aggregator, nothing more and nothing less?

guilsa commented 6 years ago

Splitting it into multiple files would give newcomers a chance to contribute if they feel like they have something, but it will be one more thing to maintain. Coming in with anything is not ideal. It sucks to have to resort to it but at this stage of the project, it’s not sustainable. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 12:48 AM Tu V. Tran notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree with your points. I'll admit that I haven't been able to pay enough attention to this project. I'll plan on purging some of the redundant tutorials. What do you think about putting them into a separate file like "Some other tutorials" which acts as a link aggregator, nothing more and nothing less?

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enkeyz commented 3 years ago

Sticking to the "masterpiece" materials, as you said, we could remove most of the projects listed in the repo. Curating, reading through all the project materials would take tremendous amount of work.

tuvtran commented 3 years ago

we can begin tagging tutorials that stand the test of time like classic