How Do You Stack Up Against Other Developers?

by ghempton • 15 years ago

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JangoSteve• 15 years ago

These things are interesting and good ego-candy (or not), but one thing that always bothers me about sites that import your projects from Github is that they never seem to look at the open-source projects for which I'm a core team member (unless it happens to be one with its canonical repo is under my personal account).

Like, when someone is a core team member working on rails, that's a big difference from simply having a fork of rails under your own username. But these sites would never look at the core rails members because the official rails repo is under the rails namespace, not anyone's personal account.

Because of this (and many many other factors), it would be hard to ever use something like this to actually assess a given developer's chops.

kelnos• 15 years ago

Hell, what about non-GitHub? I have tons of code on http://git.xfce.org that presumably this site wouldn't pick up at all.

whather• 15 years ago

We're working on adding BitBucket and Ohloh soon

rocktronica• 15 years ago

Please don't make me create yet-another-account to see a number.

bcg1976• 15 years ago

I was very interested to see this. I have been working on a similar idea but without the github "centric-ness".

My one is called codefamous.com and has a similar tag idea to yours but I've gone a bit more flexible and allowed users to create tags and tag groups that they like and pinch them from each other's profiles. See my profile on it to give you an idea: http://codefamous.com/bcg

Yes everyone, I know I need the services of a designer and gravitar and auth api integration. It early days yet as I'v only just knocked her up over the last couple of weeks.

At the moment I'm just really interested in what tags and groups evolve.

lindvall• 15 years ago

Why are they emailing developers out of the blue to "claim" their profile?

Please don't base your service off of crawling sites and emailing people who don't ask for either.

btrask• 15 years ago

I just got one of these spam emails too. Gordon L. Hempton, I believe you are promoting your business in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act. Please stop.

How Do You Stack Up Against Other Developers?

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