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Sure, they could. But why would they? It's the wild west out there and there's barely anything you don't already have. Maybe add support for some of the larger
by jdiff 1y ago
Sure, they could. But why would they? It's the wild west out there and there's barely anything you don't already have. Maybe add support for some of the larger code forges, but anything smaller than that is too small to bother with. It's not going to make the difference.
- dgrin91 1y agoBecause why wouldn't they? Web crawlers are cheap (relatively). More data is good. No one is manually adding or reviewing sites, they just hoover up the whole Internet.
- jdiff 1y agoGit repos on software forges are structured, polite, easy to process, and are ubiquitous. You can provide additional information very easily with simple existing tools to enhance learning. Like I said, the web's the wild west. It'd require sifting through a lot of noise and there's no guarantee you can reconstitute a sane codebase that you can learn something practical from. So yeah, they could do it, and if the net is indiscriminate it will probably be in there, but trying to target it is pretty pointless given the incredibly tiny returns.