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How to see count of project downloads on GitHub? [duplicate]
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Closed 9 years ago.
I've started a new project on github, and I wonder if there is a way to see if anyone downloads the code at all. I would imagine if anyone does then it would be a clone request, but I can't find a way to access that count. Absent forking and feature requests, I can't tell if there is any interest in project, and I have no idea if it's even worth keeping it on github at all. Anyone knows what to do?
I don't believe that this information is available.
Most of the interest metrics I've seen at GitHub revolve around the number of forks and stars a repository has. Of course, the number of commits and contributors are also useful.
UPD.: GitHub released traffic analytics https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics
There is a service that measures amount of traffic - https://bitdeli.com/ , of course it's not perfect, but might give you a picture.
You just need to add their embed code (image) in readme, take a look at example on my Magnific Popup repository (at the bottom of page).
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Where can I report a GitHub bug?
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Closed last month.
I found a minor bug-like behavior in the GitHub interface. Or maybe what I am really after is a new or improved feature.
Is there a public GitHub repo for the GitHub code base? Or, where is the appropriate place to file this issue?
Any web search with terms like "GitHub" along with "issue" or "bug" inevitably leads to instructions for how to file GitHub issues or submit feature requests for GitHub repos in general. There is too much noise to find results about the GitHub itself.
I finally found it. I hadn't thought of looking searching for "bug in GitHub website." Adding "website" led me to GitHub support.
https://support.github.com/request
Feature requests go to the discussion board. Bug reports go here
A year ago I have started an issue on github repository of a popular open source project. There wasn't enough data to fix it because bug was caused only by one closed source program. Recently I have stumbled upon other program that causes the bug and this one is open source. This should make it possible to fix the issue.
I have added new comment in issue providing new information, but it got no response for 10 days.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/6253
I wonder if maintainers see comments on old issues in their notifications?
If they do did they discard it by accident or perhaps because in their experience most comments on old issues are useless?
Should I just edit last comment there slightly?
Will they see that?
Or what to do?
The good news is the project is not dead. Issues have been closed recently and PRs have been merged. Someone is watching the queue. The bad news is the project has over 800 open issues at this time which means they're probably swamped.
Open Source projects are typically run by volunteers, and that looks like a low priority issue. If you want it solved, do everything you can do reduce the work necessary to fix the problem. You've already given clear instructions on how to reproduce the problem, that's a very good start.
The single best thing you can do is submit a PR with a complete patch including tests. Be sure to conform to their developer guidelines. That project does not leave PRs open long. If you can't do a complete patch, take a stab at it and submit the PR asking for help. If you don't know where to start patching, make a comment on the issue asking for help with where to start.
Basically, do the work. If you can't do the work, show a willingness to do the work.
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How to undo another user's checkout in TFS via the GUI?
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how to delete a developers workspace
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Closed 8 years ago.
My TFS terminology usage is probably all wrong because I'm new to it.
I have taken over a project. Two other users worked on it before me. Now they have left the company.
Lots of files in our TFS repositories say they are being edited by the departed users. I am assured by one of these users that this is wrong and I can safely make TFS not think the files are being edited.
However, I don't know how to do this. I am the only developer here and I want to make TFS think that no files are being edited at all.
There are thousands of files so I need a way to do this to all of them at once.
Fixed by following this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1690394/127434
I have to write more or else this answer will be converted to a comment and SO won't let me mark it as the answer.
I hope this is long enough now.
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Hudson: how do i use a parameterized build to do svn checkout and svn tag?
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Closed 3 years ago.
Is there a way or does anyone know of a plug-in that I can use so that my builds will be triggered by tagging in SVN? I have a down stream project that I want to only contain tagged versions of its up stream projects. So, if anyone knows of another possible solution to this problem, I would appreciate other suggestions.
Thanks!
Set up a regular project with an SCM trigger that points to the SVN tags directory.
This way, it will get triggered whenever a new tag is created.
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Migrate from Sourceforge to Github
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Closed 9 years ago.
Does anyone know of any script/package that could automatically migrate tickets in sourceforge bug/feature request trackers to GitHub issues? It's possible to export the sourceforge tickets as XML, so I would imagine that it should be possible to write a script to automatically create the tickets in GitHub, so just wanted to check if something like this exists already?
Update: GitHub throttles requests through their old API, which my tool uses. https://github.com/cmungall/gosf2github uses the new API, and is probably what you want instead.
I've written a Python script to do this. It's at https://github.com/ttencate/sf2github.
Beware: Sunday afternoon software. Use at your own risk, etc. etc. Pull requests welcome!
The Python software foundation used sourceforge's xml to migrate its bug tracker to roundup, here are the scripts. For github you'd use a REST API or maybe something on top of that, though I didn't find a ready-made conversion script.