Indeed, it shouldn't focus indication but a combination of all, open pull requests, lots of issues and nearly no commits is a good indication that the project is dead and should not be promoted actively. And as much as it hurts me to say this, socket.io is indeed a good example of this.
On Friday, September 20, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > > open pull requests commit activity > > There are some modules so simple that the code will never change. I have > several of my own that are untouched over a year but I rely on them heavily. > I do look at commit activity myself. I'm just saying it isn't always > accurate. > > The opposite example is socket.io (http://socket.io). The project died and > my app's communication got worse and worse and changing to sockjs worked > miracles. > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com > (mailto:i...@3rd-eden.com)> wrote: > > In addition to stars on github it should really take the amount of issues, > > open pull requests commit activity in consideration when recommedating > > modules. So it can filter out all the dead and unmaintained projects which > > are likely to die soon. > > > > On Friday, September 20, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Mathias Buus Madsen wrote: > > > > > On and off over the last six months we've built a search engine for > > > finding modules, http://node-modules.com. It uses several parameters and > > > some cleverness to give you great results quickly. > > > > > > While using it ourselves we have noticed a paradigm shift in the way we > > > work, which has been really interesting. The last part of this post will > > > go over that. > > > > > > > > > Node-modules.com (http://Node-modules.com) and what it does > > > There are already two search engines in the node community (apart from > > > npmjs.org (http://npmjs.org)), http://eirikb.github.com/nipster and > > > http://nodetoolbox.com. However, node-modules.com > > > (http://node-modules.com) have something new contribute with. We set out > > > to give you the absolute most relevant results at the very top. > > > Node-modules.com (http://Node-modules.com) uses different parameters to > > > rank all modules and give better results: > > > > > > * Name, keywords, and description of the module (cleverly done so that > > > 'parse' and 'parsing' are alike) > > > * Number of other modules dependant on this module > > > * Number of stars on github > > > * If you follow the author > > > * If the module is used by an author you follow > > > * If you have starred another module by the same author > > > > > > Some of these parameters require you to log in with github, but even > > > without it you get great results. By starring more modules and following > > > your favorite authors on github you'll improve your search results. > > > > > > That's about all there is to it. Why not try some of these: > > > The top router modules, http://node-modules.com/search?q=router > > > The top mongo modules, http://node-modules.com/search?q=mongo > > > Or all the modules substack has created, > > > http://node-modules.com/search?q=@substack > > > > > > > > > Command-line version > > > Of course there's also a cli tool for node-modules.com > > > (http://node-modules.com) > > > > > > $ npm install -g node-modules > > > $ node-modules search web framework > > > > > > > > > A paradigm shift? > > > But what was this with a paradigm shift? To avoid this post being too > > > lengthy, and miss the point, we wrote it about on our blog, > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/node_modules/comments/1msh9n/a_paradigm_shift/ > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > Feedback is much appreciated, @node_modules or the blog, > > > http://reddit.com/r/node_modules > > > > > > Pull requests accepted, http://github.com/mafintosh/node-modules > > > > > > // Mathias Buus, http://github.com/mafintosh > > > // Tobias Baunbæk, http://github.com/freeall > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > > Posting guidelines: > > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com) > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > > --- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "nodejs" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:nodejs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "nodejs" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:nodejs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > (mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com) > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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