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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