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github signals fly by night to many.

• tenfingers 13y ago
  I have to nod on this. Github is a great indicator for developers mostly, but from any user point of view, having a source dump is next to useless. And by user, I do not mean a dumb user. I would consider myself the user of a library if I'm not planning to contribute. I can only contribute meaningfully to a dozen of OSS projects; for the others I'm pretty much an ordinary user. In that case I care much more about introduction, documentation and stable releases. Github is pretty much useless by itself in these cases, and the idea that you can just dump a half-assed readme and "call it a day" is something that I've only seen since github became popular.
  • bad_user 13y ago
    Even if I'm not a contributor, GitHub hosting of projects is for me very valuable, as I can sneak peek quickly at the implementation. Many projects also have samples and good tests and taking a quick look at the implementation (and I'm talking about randomly selecting files and opening them), not to mention the list of commits, can tell you a lot of things about how the project is being maintained, about quality and so on. Developers should really stop behaving like dumb users.
• pseut 13y ago
  Github to a user page, definitely. If it's an organization page I usually feel differently.