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I work for a nonprofit. Most of git repos are public but nobody cares. It's all pretty uninteresting.
by tootie 4y ago
I work for a nonprofit. Most of git repos are public but nobody cares. It's all pretty uninteresting.
- throw_nbvc1234 4y agois it uninteresting or just not scalable for a human to dig through; content vs index/search problem?
- ghaff 4y agoI read uninteresting as not very very useful for an external party in general. It was likely developed for an organization's fairly unique needs, is probably not very well documented, and there's no community in the sense that most genuinely useful open source projects have. Dumping a big one-off repo of code is fine but probably no one's going to put the work into seeing if this project that was never intended to be general-purpose is worth trying to adapt for something else.
- tootie 4y agoExactly this. It's like our websites and some other tools for our particular needs. We have, on rare occasion, gotten PRs from earnest supporters but they have no idea what our product needs are and we can't just merge in stuff that nobody asked for and hasn't been tested.
- starefossen 4y agoFor us it is a matter of building trust and allowing others to help if they choose so. We don’t expect many outside contributions.