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> If you have something useful on GitHub... make the repo private or close contributions then? if it's going to be useless and only be used by yourself, you m
by yannoninator 5y ago
> If you have something useful on GitHub...
make the repo private or close contributions then?
if it's going to be useless and only be used by yourself, you might as well blog about it and move onto the next useless project.
hell, there may be no need to place it on github for these sort of projects.
- david_allison 5y agoSomeone might find value in it. An unmaintained[0] badge feels like a better solution compared to not publishing it [0] https://github.com/potch/unmaintained.tech https://github.com/potch/unmaintained.tech
- ipaddr 5y agoI would suggest you may not be the right person to use code in these repos. For someone like me sometimes I'm looking for a small sample of code that fits a pattern. I could careless about the project. Sometimes you need an odd piece. Saying his code doesn't belong on github tells me you might not belong on github.
- yannoninator 5y ago> Saying his code doesn't belong on github tells me you might not belong on github. you're right, most of these 'unpolished' projects can go on gitlab, bitbucket or another git hosting solution instead.
- ratww 5y agoTerrible advice from an educational perspective. I use Github all the time to find code samples, especially for 3D stuff, shaders, audio, emulation, demoscene... It's more common to find solutions to my problems in zero-star projects than in big ones. Lots of people star my code-as-art experiments too, and from the forks I can see they find educational value in it. Not everything in the world has to fit perfectly into some preconceived mold. Heck, in that case, the most interesting/educational things are trying to avoid that.
- yannoninator 5y agothrow it on gitlab then?
- ratww 5y agoHow about no?
- yannoninator 5y agoyes, since this works for most useless projects, I know a developer that uses gitlab for this purpose. works well and you can self host it you should try it!
- ratww 5y agoThere's nothing to be gained by anyone by using this approach, and a lot to be lost. Gitlab/Bitbucket are not "dumps" for projects you deem useless, and "useless" projects are not useless at all from an educational point of view. Gitlab and Bitbucket are exactly the same as Github and should have both "serious" and "useless" projects the same. Using a personal Gitlab instance or anything similar for that is a terrible idea because it costs substantial time and money of individual developers and severely hurts discoverability. People should put their "useless" projects wherever they want and are permitted to.
- yannoninator 5y agoWho says I want 'discoverability', after all we are talking about useless project born of a hobby no? Not everyone wants to have to share everything that is useless with the world especially if it's only going to be you. I also don't want people to have to bug me for feature requests as well on top of that. There is a reason GitHub/Lab/Bitbucket has private repos for this purpose. You can obviously choose to share it, but you shouldn't be whining if your 'useless' hobby repository suddenly becomes the focus of attention of developers requesting more features.
- heleninboodler 5y agoAnyone who thinks github code should be polished and supported or hidden from view is going to be sorely disappointed in my island of misfit experiments, but I really couldn't care less. I didn't put it on github for fame, exposure, or resume fodder, I put it there because they host my repos for free.
- purrplexed 5y agogatekeeping github... classic agree with the others here. github isn't some place where only published packages go.