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

jklp via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 30 13:34:46 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 21:23:53 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
> 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.)

Sorry it was a trivial and useless answer. forgot that this board 
is excusively serious.



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