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I was very surprised to open the gemfile and see a gem I wrote "s3_direct_upload" being used. Especially considering there is native support to upload files dir
by blissofbeing 8y ago
I was very surprised to open the gemfile and see a gem I wrote "s3_direct_upload" being used. Especially considering there is native support to upload files directly to s3 in rails 5.
Then I looked at the repo and realized, wow people are still using this gem, maybe I should maintain it.
- guu 8y agoI think this is a very common experience for maintainers. I wonder if it would make sense to have a low friction way for people to notify maintainers that they’re using a library? I guess stars are a little bit like that but people star stuff they don’t use. Or maybe have something that would automatically crawl github for you and find out how many projects depended on your library.
- joombaga 8y ago> Or maybe have something that would automatically crawl github for you and find out how many projects depended on your library. There's already a form of this: https://github.com/waynehoover/s3_direct_upload/network/dependents https://github.com/waynehoover/s3_direct_upload/network/depe...
- yellowapple 8y agoI learn something new everyday :) Too bad the language/manifest support seems to be so limited. I wonder if others are in the works?
- nl 8y agoI wrote a Java natural language processing library in 2003, which is hosted on sourceforge. I found out a week ago that HP is apparently has a team not only actively using it, but trying to build their own version which outperforms it. It amuses me greatly to see them publishing, with my stupid toy library citation from 2003 sitting first and second on every benchmark they use.