Idea/request: If you have a DUB project, add a code.dlang.org badge to README

Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 30 13:23:52 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 21:19:52 UTC, jklp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 21:12:38 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>> A few weeks/months ago someone here mentioned that it'd be 
>> good if DUB projects linked to code.dlang.org to help anyone 
>> who runs into such a project quickly discover other D projects.
>>
>> MAny GitHub projects have "badges"/"shields" on top of their 
>> READMEs - little image strips showing things like continuous 
>> integration status, code coverage, etc.
>>
>> There's also a service generating these: shields.io
>>
>> I generated a simple "listed at| code.dlang.org" shield, and 
>> added it to my project READMEs as a link pointing to 
>> code.dlang.org for example, see D:YAML README:
>>
>>  https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML
>>
>> You can do the same by either linking to or downloading the 
>> shield:
>>
>>  
>> https://img.shields.io/badge/listed%20at-code.dlang.org-red.png
>>
>> (used red... because mars)
>>
>> and putting the image (whether as a link to shields.io or your 
>> own copy) into your README.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's not likely to be a huge improvement, but I expect it 
>> *can* help people notice more D projects and it's trivial to 
>> do.
>
> red is connoted negative/agressive, I think blue would be 
> better.
> Or maybe yellow-mustard for those who have doubtful tastes...

If you want blue, just replace "red" with "blue". I used red 
because it's the color of the D logo, site and the color of Mars 
(as D was originally called Mars and lot of D things are named 
after Mars, e.g. Phobos/Deimos etc.)


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