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sagesharp / foss-heartbeat

(Unmaintained) FOSS Heartbeat analyses the health of a community of contributors. :heartbeat:
https://sarahsharp.github.io/foss-heartbeat/
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Repo description suggested change: IMPROVE SEO WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK #44

Open jglovier opened 7 years ago

jglovier commented 7 years ago

Hey Sarah!

Thanks for making this incredible project. @kytrinyx mentioned it to me recently, and it's a really interesting way to solve a very common OSS maintainer problem. :metal: :tada: :heart:

I have a non-code suggestion for this repo that may help more people benefit from it. I'd like to suggest adding an additional sentence to the repo description[1] to possibly help improve it's Google search page results. Something perhaps like:

Need a good way to do an open source health check? FOSS Heartbeat analyses the health of a community of contributors by ...

Just wanted to suggest it because since @kytrinyx has told me about it several weeks back, I've tried to remember the name of the project so I could get a link to give someone else, but never could, and consequently had to revert to much more complicated methods of simply finding a link to your project. Before I eventually found it I always tried unsuccessfully to google for it with terms like "open source health check".

So just hoping for sake of more folks discovering your project via search that adding a few of those type of words to your repo description will help improve the discoverability of this fantastic project.

Cheers! 🍻 :octocat:

Disclaimer SEO meme in title not indicative of actual SEO expertise. 😜

[1] the repo description I'm referring to:

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kytrinyx commented 7 years ago

I support this suggestion. For what it's worth, @jglovier is not the only person who DMs me to ask "What was that project again...?".

willingc commented 7 years ago

@kytrinyx Would the new 'topics' feature for GitHub help with discovery too? I agree on your suggestion to add details to the title, readme, and any docs. @sarahsharp Thoughts?

Also, have you checked out cauldron.io or grimoirelab recently? Looks like some good updates there too.

willingc commented 7 years ago

I've also been using https://github.com/librariesio/org-pulse to run markdown reports on repos across the jupyterhub organization.

kytrinyx commented 7 years ago

Would the new 'topics' feature for GitHub help with discovery too?

Oh, right! Yeah, probably. I don't know if they'll help with google searches or just GitHub searches, but it seems likely that they'd be useful.

I had not checked out any of those—will be doing so shortly, thank you!

hollenberry commented 7 years ago

I support this suggestion. For what it's worth, @jglovier is not the only person who DMs me to ask "What was that project again...?".

I can confirm that I sent a DM to @kytrinyx about 3 days ago and asked this question.