Open Source Heroes – Explore the world of Open Source

by markets86 • 3 years ago

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az09mugen• 3 years ago

Very good idea ! It's nice also to see which company participates the most in open source projects

markets865• 3 years ago

Thanks! You can also filter out contributors by language and/or country: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors. And you can even explore stats for each country: https://opensource-heroes.com/countries. And much more! There is also "Reviews" (like Google or Truspilot, but for open source).

dang2• 3 years ago

It looks like a nice project but lists can't be Show HNs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) so I've taken Show HN out of the title now.

markets865• 3 years ago

There is only one curated section, which is "Awesome" pages (https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome). The rest of the data of the whole site is pulled from GitHub API.

dang2• 3 years ago

Ok, I've edited the word "curated" out of my comment above. Sorry for the confusion.

saulpw• 3 years ago

The top users are not open source contributors, but creators of those "awesome" lists and dev interview prep resources, which are overwhelmingly popular (by number of Github stars) even though they have zero code and don't have open source licenses (they use Creative Commons licenses).

arp2424• 3 years ago

Top users and repos is almost exclusively "awesome-X" lists and things like that. I'm not saying these things aren't useful, but it's not really the same as contributing to open source or being a "top-rated open source developer".

markets865• 3 years ago

That's right, we have thought a few times that we should just skip repos with no language detected from rankings (and probably move this kind of resources to another section).

Btw, in the "Top Contributors" section, you can filter out contributors by languages, example: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python

arp2424• 3 years ago

That list still seems pretty biased (I think at least, because hovers to show the cards are mostly off-screen, in Firefox anyway).

arp2424• 3 years ago

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1] https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2] https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...

cloths• 3 years ago

Curious to know what the data source is? Github API?

markets865• 3 years ago

Yes! All data is fetched via GitHub API (due to the massive amount of data and the API rate limit, data is not updated in real time).

Open Source Heroes – Explore the world of Open Source

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