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Potential Grokers
GitHub isn't the only place where OSS happens. There are other grokers that can be created to help find those who are working hard and are under-recognised.
A groker should:
- provide a view of information not easily found via the native web interface
- provide an input for a project name, and an output of users who have contributed
- be simple and easy to use
- Potential project name: insert pun name here
- Requester: Stewart Smith via labhr/octohatrack#13.
Bugzilla is use by a few big open source projects, including the kernel and mozilla.
Technical Challenges: Bugzilla introduced a native API in version 5, but a lot of systems still run 4.4. There does exist an XML RPC, but it appears to be harder to use than a JSON API. The solution would have to be able to handle both, or allow it to be specified.
- Potential project name: insert pun name here
Sufficiently popular projects often have technical questions asked for on the Stack Overflow platform, and be grouped by tags.
A very simple implementation would be to use the existing Top Answerers API to show the top 30 answerers for a specific tag.
More complex solutions could involve checking for all participants on questions tagged with the search term, including asker, answerers and all comments.
There may be systems which have sufficiently detailed listings, but may be hard to find. It stands to reason that instead of creating applications, a sufficiently detailed documentation page may suffice for these. For example, where a specific view of information on a platform might detail contributors.
There's probably view for more systems to have implementation or documentation. To start a discussion, create an Issue