[kwlug-disc] What do people dis/like for things like github.com these days?

[Raymond Chen]

Nobody mentioned Bitbucket? I use it because it supports private
repository, good for my study projects which I don't want to show others
and might leave them there forever once I'm done.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:39:01 -0400, Keefer Rourke <keefer.rourke at gmail.com>
> said:
>
> > On October 23, 2016 10:23:11 AM EDT, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca>
> wrote:
> >> I also dislike how people are now treating their README as a project
> >> homepage due to the way Github is structured, and not many people are
> >> giving their projects a proper homepage.
>
> > I like finding out a lot from the README, it saves me from having to
> > go to several different websites, when I can find the information I
> > want with the project. Maybe I'm weird? Nothing says you can't have
> > both a project homepage and an extensive README.
>
> I like a good README too, but the thing that I don't like is people
> treating the README like a home page.  For example, the continuous
> integration status images do not belong in a README, since it's likely
> that (a couple days after you check the sources out) the continuous
> integration status image that's linked to in the README (which usually
> just points to the latest CI status) does not correspond to the
> continuous integration status for the source code that you've checked
> out, since the source code is no longer the latest.
>
> And the way some people add screenshots is to dump screenshots into the
> git repository, where they don't really belong.
>
> I know that "nothing says you can't have both a project homepage and an
> extensive README", and there are some projects that do it right.  But
> due to the way GitHub is structured, it encourages people to do these
> things.  Before GitHub came along, it was very uncommon (as in I can't
> think of any cases where it happened) for people to dump screenshots
> into their source code repository, or link to a status image for their
> CI.
>
>
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