Re: Git weekly news: 2008-49

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2008, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530812051357m4f0bc591n802c41a78e698b3b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0812051344x79fe2c10i77b2abb8e7e19fe@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:

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> 2008/12/5 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> But here are the links anyway. The order is rather random.
>>>
>>> Moreover the _quality_ of those links is very random.
>>
>> Exactly, I didn't choose them, that's what people have been tagging as
>> "git" in delicious.com. I'm subscribed to the RSS feed and saving the
>> ones that appear a lot.
>>
>> In fact I don't like some of them, but that's what the "public" finds
>> interesting.
>
> So I don't see the value of such a list. You can go to delicious and
> get it.

Try it. You can't see which ones are new, which are completely irrelevant. There are duplicates and you can't see the popularity / freshness ratio, or "hotness", never mind the most popular this week.

Apparently some people already found interesting links they haven't seen before, so at lest there's value for them.

> Another thing that could be great is filtering this list to
> those that pass a certain criteria (mainly quality, up to date, ...)
> and present it in an attractive way, with summaries, categorized by
> type (trick, tutorial, comparison,...), ...

Yes, I'll probably improve the presentation.

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Felipe Contreras