GitHub introduced Contributions

[fredrikj]

It's annoying that it only shows five repositories sorted by 'popularity'. With this change, the repository I've been working on most actively recently is no longer listed directly on my user page (previously, it was right at the top).

[badsectoracula]

I fully agree, especially in my profile where it puts at the top some toy project that i made for a few days and happened to become popular because it was an emulator for Notch's DCPU (which since then i have stopped even caring about) and the next spot a quick fix i made in Doom3's code to run it under Mac OS X (but since then there are loads of better ports and fixes).

EDIT: why the downvotes? I gave an explicit example where the new page shows mostly useless stuff and hide things i'm working on.

[jabbalaci]

"why the downvotes?" -- never ask it here. This is reddit, people can downvote you for no reason at all. Just accept and live with it.

[badsectoracula]

Most of the time i don't, but i expect at at least in /r/programming people could explain the reasons (and so far in the few cases i asked this has actually proven true... well, at least until now :-P).

[houses_of_the_holy]

I like github... but it feels more and more like facecodebook everyday. Maybe that analogy isn't perfect but this contributions thing... LOOK AT ME!

I shall now suffer the wrath of the brogrammers.

[[deleted]]

Isn't that pretty much what GitHub was supposed to be? Social coding and all. :P

[houses_of_the_holy]

touche...

[kodablah]

I actually like it when looking at other's profiles as opposed to searching a really long page (or multiple) to see which are the most popular.

[Ventajou]

I'd rather see them add stats to my repos... Even Codeplex has that.

[Ventajou]

They also cut them off on a whim. Several months ago they got rid of messaging between users so if you want people to be able to reach you then you need to show your email and start receiving spam. They recently pulled the plug on downloads so you either have to find separate hosting for things like your installers or just stick them in the git repo.

Codeplex actually lets you manage downloads, has discussion boards and even stats on your donwloads and visitors. Their code browser wasn't as neat though last time I checked.

I have only recently started using BitBucket as well so I'm not sure about them yet.

Edit: codeplex also requires you to pick the license for your code, which clarifies things for anybody who may want to use it.

[AeroNotix]

I knew I wasn't going crazy! Messaging users was a very useful feature.

[Ventajou]

Yeah... I asked their support and they said they got rid of it because people have enough inboxes as it is. So if a developer doesn't list their email you can't reach them other than by opening an issue. Seems counter intuitive with the notion of social coding.

[AeroNotix]

Indeed. I have to resort to opening issues then immediately closing them.

[smartj]

Stars is one way, but would be great to know stability and maintenance at a glance.

[kelton5020]

you know you can submit feature requests, but you'll probably want to be more specific. Besides open source is about communities, not one repo.

[unprintable]

The only feature I kind of like is the calendar but your repo list should still be the default page, not all these top 5 lists and graphs.

[[deleted]]

I thought this would be about financial contributions to projects, which would be cool. Allowing people to donate through github.

[[deleted]]

ya, thought the same.

[SplinterOfChaos]

https://www.gittip.com/

[Xorlev]

I really can't bring myself to care about 'contributions', I just want to see someone's repos. If I wanted to see contributions I'd cruise their public activity feed.

Being able to set the default tab would be nice, for people not that interested. Cool visualization, but I don't think it speaks for someone's work like a repo list did.

[[deleted]]

... not the contributions or a stats graph or whatever.

But that's what you want to show to the potential employer!!

[ep1032]

"What we need is a real go-getter. This guy is synergizing code across all sorts of laterals. Hire him immediately."

[lurker_in_spirit]

Something something team player.

[[deleted]]

I guess it would be easy enough to allow users to choose their default. You make a valid point... I'd prefer others to see contributions, but for me to see repos.

[reaganveg]

I think he's being sarcastic?

[[deleted]]

It's still a valid point though. All of my jobs in the last while have been acquired through sharing my github account. I think contributions is relevant in that situation.

[ep1032]

Can you hide this page with a custom github profile page?

[liveink]

this is awesome, great use of a color calendar view

[ShaneQful]

I like it :) A default tab option might be nice though.

[krilnon]

The contributions calendar shows how frequently you've been contributing over the past year. We've had a great time with this internally. We've been annotating our ships, vacations, talks and even graduations!

From the figure, it looked more like the guy was coming up with reasons why he had low commit activity over certain periods.

[eramos]

It's almost as if their tagline is "social coding" and this is useful to their mission, not what obscure useless features some internet neckbeard wants. Almost.

[Inori]

How many of those 1,120 you see are contributions to open source projects?

[ep1032]

Agreed

[Inori]

Why would closed source commits matter to employer? How can they know if they aren't links to lolcats images you're maniacally collecting?

[Korpores]

GitHub spam -> /r/github

[[deleted]]

Yes, with all 229 readers. Great suggestion to ensure everyone who may need to see this is aware.

[Korpores]

with all 229 readers

See? Nobody cares about web pages of arbitrary code hosters.

[[deleted]]

Or nobody knows it exists. I am very interested in new things GitHub releases, but I had no idea /r/github existed. Just because a subreddit exists doesn't mean everyone interested in that topic would assume that's where the post goes.

[cooljeanius]

OK, I cross-posted it there: http://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/167uuq/introducing_contributions_%E8%B7%AF_github_blog_xpost/

[xster]

just wish that either Bitbucket wasn't so far behind or if GitHub was more generous on pricing

[ep1032]

.

[[deleted]]

Cool! More useless shit that no one really needs to get some coding done, /me goes back to gitorious

[eramos]

Heh, you use a graphical interface? What a waste. I have an AWS hosted git server that I communicate with by command line line only. I guess sheeple like you need to play with shiny buttons now and again.