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Github should have more project meta-data, rather than sifting through the README. For example, Production Status: experimental / alpha / it's complicated / pro
by irq-1 12y ago
Github should have more project meta-data, rather than sifting through the README. For example, Production Status: experimental / alpha / it's complicated / production / paid support. Pull request status, standards, response time-frame and response time-frame history would be nice. Canonical URL could become a cross-VCS hosting standard that fixes the annoying "this project has moved" messages.
Simple configurations could change meta-data based on activity over time, or voting, or (?). Default settings like "Mark this repo Abandoned after 3 months without commits" would cleanup confusion for most small projects.
- mercurial 12y agoAgreed, a "health status" for projects would be very beneficial, and probably not that hard to implement.
- djur 12y agoSourceforge has that, because beyond being a collaboration platform it also had goals of being a software directory and distribution site. Github seems to carefully avoid picking up features that position it as a directory or distributor, though.