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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