GitHub API is assigning the wrong language to some repos. about esri.github.io HOT 4 CLOSED

My suggestion awhile ago was to use tags in the README and/or description. That makes it easier to manage, extend and less automatic.

We could then more easily tag things like "Mobile" or "Big Data" "Social", etc

On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Allan [email protected] wrote:

We need a way to manually override GitHub's language classification.

e.g.

https://github.com/Esri/offline-and-routing-data-collection-ios is being tagged as "D" and should be "iOS".

We can't trust the GitHub API for this. Our language tags in repos.yaml should override the language tag GitHub assigns.

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Perhaps we could just extend the github language support.

By that I mean, when a language is correct, just use it. But when a language is incorrent, add a language tag to the yaml file and overwrite the existing language.

This would also get us around our "null language" problem.

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I think I will close this and open an issue on the source-esri.github.com repo, as it will need to be solved there.

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Issue thread can be continued here.

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