[Haskell-cafe] idea: ratings (or maybe comments) for packages in hackage

[Charlie Paul]

If we go with the star-based option, I don't see a serious reason not to
add other sites as well. Though, if our goal is to get a rating of sorts
from it, we would need to have factors for each hosting site, to account
for varying user bases.


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com
> wrote:

> would we also want to integrate bitbucket and darcsden analogues as well?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
>
>> * Simon Hengel <sol at typeful.net> [2013-11-04 23:45:36+0100]
>> > Or maybe just integrating GitHub stars is the way to go?  If this leads
>> > to more stars for Haskell projects on GitHub, this would also help to
>> > promote Haskell in the large open source community!
>>
>> That's a great idea!
>>
>> The github url can be derived by checking the homepage url and the
>> source repository location for the right pattern. (At least one of these
>> should point to github.)
>>
>> Then we just need to send a GET request at
>>
>>   http://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/stargazers
>>
>> and parse the JSON response.
>>
>> To avoid the delay while loading the page, I guess it's better to do
>> this asynchronously on the client side.
>>
>> Anyone cares to write this piece of javascript?
>>
>> Roman
>>
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