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Look, github is great and all, but will linking to your github repo really entice me to use your library? If its brownie points you're looking for in using gith
by tomlin 15y ago
Look, github is great and all, but will linking to your github repo really entice me to use your library? If its brownie points you're looking for in using github, you lost them by not providing a demo of the library and only a tiny bit of code that explains what it does.
- oscargodson 15y ago+1 - I hate getting linked to GitHub repos where the "demo" is download, install, and then copy and paste this demo code.
- joeshaw 15y agoOne of things I like about github is that it's done a great job of enticing developers to write good README files. I've seen many projects that do a fine job of introducing the project, listing things like license, dependencies, etc., and showing example code of how it works. Often times it also links to a demo or screencasts. For most projects, this seems good enough -- most project web sites don't add any more value.