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I feel like GitHub is partially being overrun by cheap and easy repositories to farm for stars, why would you ever need a README maturity model?
by sondr3 9y ago
I feel like GitHub is partially being overrun by cheap and easy repositories to farm for stars, why would you ever need a README maturity model?
- WorldMaker 9y agoIf this repository additionally had badges that you could embed at the top of your GitHub README, I would expect it to be satire. I'm still not entirely convinced it isn't satire.
- simias 9y agoI'm curious, what does star farming get you? Is it just like farming karma on HN or is there a more practical reason to do that? Also, while I'm sure there's a gigantic amount of rather useless repos on github (I contributed my share...) doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to have guidelines to write usefull READMEs for projects that do matter.
- dredmorbius 9y agoTrust / credibility / reputation attacks, of various sorts.
- kyoob 9y agoIt looks like the main purpose of this repo is for open source project developers to open issues to get someone to help edit their projects' readme's. That's kinda nice!
- kevmo 9y agoDocumentation is part of the craft, so I appreciate casual attempts at formalizing conversation about commonly used methods of creating it.