It seems like a silly metric. Almost all code gets abandoned, and at an alarming rate. Unless you happened to build a popular database or an operating system component, itβs likely that your code is gone in 10 years. And if not, your code is likely the future bane of some developer who despises maintaining it since it is such a bear to update to their unforeseeable requirements.
> I have like 30 projects on github, I don't expect any of them to really go anywhere, it's just where I put stuff when I'm playing with a new concept.
Then why put it there?
git works fine without github. And by putting your projects on github all you did was add to the baseline white noise that people have to filter through.
For backups, ease of access, and so potential clients and employers can see. Although most of my newer work resides on my privately hosted gitea.
Where should I put it? Or are you suggesting not sharing it at all?
Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre
by BlueTemplar on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:06AM
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My view is different from the person you're answering to, but - on an actual open-source based website that hasn't been bought by a closed-source transnational corporation ?
There are ~3 projects that I would have actually have liked to go somewhere, real projects not toys, that I have abandoned.
So that "98% of projects" statistic is fair, but I think those numbers would be looking a lot better if you accounted for the fact that github is just a place to throw stuff up. Just because something is on github doesn't mean it's an open source "project".