Rescue GitHub, Reverse The Entropy!

On Thursday 17. July 2014, I presented the following at the X-Team Showcase we had that day:

In essence, the number of repositories we have on our GitHub account is sky-rocketing:

NB: Those data are updated on a regular basis, it’s a live post!

This in turn makes it more and more difficult for us to know what we have in there, learn from each other and share the good stuff we have. I propose to do some cleanup: a) get rid of the dead repositories b) have a minimal README for every repository we own c) author your commits with your own names and not your team or something impersonal d) the master branch is reserved for code that runs in production or is soon to be deployed there.

If you want to help, be my guest. I have 2 lists of suspicious repositories:

• private repos with 0 activity for the past 12 months
• old private repos with very little activity

Pick few from the first list, see if it’s still needed or give a nudge to the team that is supposed to maintain it. Have them delete it if that’s now rubbish. If you spend few minutes figuring out who’s that project and what it is about, think about putting your findings in a README.md for the next fellow to come with the same questions.

Here is a minimal README:

## Motivation

## Contributing (optional)

## Maintainers

Thanks for your help in making our work environment a better place for all of us!