Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2013, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CAEcj5uXHxvo90bP8GC5hDLBz4HZhg1JV4jHUSWnbSNhnjtCH=g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51AEBAEF.6090402@alum.mit.edu>

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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> But my main point is that I think it would be easier to phase out
> contrib/ if there were a good alternate way of providing visibility to
> "satellite" projects.  The relevant Git wiki page [1] is the most likely
> candidate, but it is a bit overwhelming due to its size, it has fallen
> into disuse because it was broken for such a long time, and it is not
> prominently linked to from git-scm.com.  If it were curated a bit, it
> would help users find the best ancillary tools quickly.  Perhaps ranking
> the tools based on the results of the Git user surveys would help bring
> the most popular to the top of each category.
>

One idea here could be to mirror what the libgit2 project [1] (and many others) are doing on GitHub. Use the organization unit [2] as an umbrella for the contrib projects. If necessary, put a pretty web-page on top [3].

Of course you don't have to tie it to GitHub, but they do have some nice mechanisms for showing off popularity (stars and forks).

I heard that clojure/contrib [4] went through a big clean-up recently, although I'm not sure if there was an equivalent reasoning behind it. But their guide-lines on what should go into contrib may have some good ideas [5].

[1] https://github.com/libgit2 [2] https://github.com/git [3] http://libgit2.github.com/ [4] http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Where+Did+Clojure.Contrib+Go [5] http://dev.clojure.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5767464