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Create a heuristic for featured software
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- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 55
- Forks
- 24
- Avg merge
- 1d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 17
Description
How do we decide which packages to feature on the front page? A suggestion from Rich and Michael: GitHub star trajectory (most gain over a certain time period).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the front-page featured software selection and review the existing discussion, including the proposed GitHub star trajectory measure. Define a reproducible heuristic for choosing featured packages and specify how its results would be evaluated before implementation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- analytics, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100