Why Do People "Watch" Code? A Short Survey for Open Source Devs

Re:Why Do People "Watch" Code? A Short Survey for Open Sourc... by stcredzero on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:18PM (#2126307)

The presenter at the meet up last night watches projects on Github as "a poor man's bookmark." Time for Github to implement other lists.

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Re:Why Do People "Watch" Code? A Short Survey for Open Sourc... by grinich on Thursday January 20, 2011 @11:02PM (#2126415)

That's exactly how I use it as well.

What I'd like to see is a "★/☆" for a repo, branch, or commit. Similar to the way you can ★ a question or answer on StackOverflow.

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Re:Why Do People "Watch" Code? A Short Survey for Open Sourc... by jonsmock on Friday January 21, 2011 @08:46AM (#2127315)

I definitely do this. If I'm actually "watching" a repo, such as tenderlove's ARel repo, I'll put the RSS feed into my reader. Might be a little clunky to do it that way, but that's basically how I get all my other news.

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