I miss badges. Can we have badges? about feedback HOT 13 CLOSED

Since Depfu does not show up among the contributers to the repository (on GitHub that is) it would be nice to show off (i.e. free advertisement for Depfu, hint-hint) with a badge. Maybe one that counts the number of Depfu PRs merged.

Also, GitLab acquired Gemnasium, so GitHubbers might be on the lookout for a working alternative (i.e. Depfu) soon.

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"Number of open Depfu PRs (not merged)" could come off as shaming the maintainers.

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I am very much in love with the count badge. ☑️

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I meant to post this as myself, not a machine user. #RiseOfTheMachines.

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ok, here are some badgers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6CDFn2i3I

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@theflow What say you?

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I can make something happen :)

Just never a big fan of the Gemnasium badge, since it would should as "Outdated" pretty much all the time.

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Agreed. The metric of the badge should be carefully considered. Some ideas, of which a badge could integrate one or more:

• Average age of open Depfu PRs in days, months, or years
• Average age between open and close of Depfu PRs in days, months, or years
• Number of Depfu PRs merged (@leoarnold 's idea)
• Number of open Depfu PRs (not merged)

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Shaming, sure, but perhaps also motivating? The goal as I see it would be to spur community involvement among those who depend on a project, by alerting people to the state of the project. It will also help people who are not yet depending on a project to be able to make a more informed decision about whether or not to adopt / invest in a project.

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Ok, I've implemented a few prototypes:

Overview Badge

Pretty straightforward and similar to what's already out there: shows up-to-date, outdated, insecure for runtime dependencies. I was thinking about making the outdated less harsh by

• ignoring patch releases (so it only counts as outdated if you're at least a minor version behind)
• and/or allowing a certain amount (25%) of dependencies to be outdated

I think it doesn't really matter that a few are outdated, because as a user I want the library to just care about updating from time-to-time.

Count Badge

I like the simplicity of this one. Same rule ignoring patch releases as above. I also like that it immediately gives you an idea how many dependencies this library uses.

Depfu

This is very Depfu specific and doesn't really tell a user much about the state of dependencies. But maybe more of a "I'm using Depfu" badge?

Let me know what you folks think!

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The prototype of the "Depfu" badge is way longer than the usual badges and therefore a little odd. And the "Overview" badge is indistinguishable from the Gemnasium badge to me.

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To shorten, all of the badges could use Depfu on the left side instead of dependencies.

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This is done: https://depfu.com/blog/rethinking-the-dependencies-badge

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