Re:Verto.sh: A New Hub Connecting Beginners with Open-Source...
by ryanisnan on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:32PM
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This kind of speaks to how stars on GitHub are kind of a mess themselves. What would be really interesting is if there were some kind of a metric that captured oss-contributor sentiment - projects that were easy to contribute to, with healthy ecosystems, would have higher scores, and projects where your PRs sit forever half-reviewed, or unmerged, get lower scores.
One thing I think the tool doesn't address is why someone should contribute to a particular project. Having stars is interesting, and a proxy for at least historical activity, but also kind of useless here - take argoproj/argo-cd [1] as an example - 14.5k stars, with a backlog of 2.7k issues and an issue tracker that's a real mess.
Either way, I think this tool is neat for trying to gain some experience in a project purely based on language.
[1] https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...