<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Hubert Chathi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hubert@uhoreg.ca" target="_blank">hubert@uhoreg.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:39:01 -0400, Keefer Rourke <<a href="mailto:keefer.rourke@gmail.com">keefer.rourke@gmail.com</a>> said:<br>
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> On October 23, 2016 10:23:11 AM EDT, Hubert Chathi <<a href="mailto:hubert@uhoreg.ca">hubert@uhoreg.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">>> I also dislike how people are now treating their README as a project<br>
>> homepage due to the way Github is structured, and not many people are<br>
>> giving their projects a proper homepage.<br>
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> I like finding out a lot from the README, it saves me from having to<br>
> go to several different websites, when I can find the information I<br>
> want with the project. Maybe I'm weird? Nothing says you can't have<br>
> both a project homepage and an extensive README.<br>
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</span>I like a good README too, but the thing that I don't like is people<br>
treating the README like a home page. For example, the continuous<br>
integration status images do not belong in a README, since it's likely<br>
that (a couple days after you check the sources out) the continuous<br>
integration status image that's linked to in the README (which usually<br>
just points to the latest CI status) does not correspond to the<br>
continuous integration status for the source code that you've checked<br>
out, since the source code is no longer the latest.<br>
<br>
And the way some people add screenshots is to dump screenshots into the<br>
git repository, where they don't really belong.<br>
<br>
I know that "nothing says you can't have both a project homepage and an<br>
extensive README", and there are some projects that do it right. But<br>
due to the way GitHub is structured, it encourages people to do these<br>
things. Before GitHub came along, it was very uncommon (as in I can't<br>
think of any cases where it happened) for people to dump screenshots<br>
into their source code repository, or link to a status image for their<br>
CI.<br>
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