[Vm-dev] Why OpenSmalltalk/vm not googlable and not searchable on GitHub?

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Tue Jun 21 10:55:09 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Dimitris Chloupis
> <kilon.alios at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ah ok i see now, actually you will get empty results in the search because github searches for repo first
>>
>> openSmalltalk is not the name of a repo its the name of the user so you have to click to user and it will it to you
>>
>> so its both found by google and github
>
> Ahh. Thats quite an insight that I hadn't noticed before.  Also the
> first 8 results searching github for "vm" are 8 different projects.
> One of the reasons for moving to github is get more visibility.  I'm
> afraid like this that we'll be lost in the noise.
>
> Actually when I made my fork of the repo, I'd noticed the project
> seemed to lose its identity as...
>     https://github.com/bencoman/vm
> but I didn't worry to much about it since "I" knew what it was.  But
> confusion in the public arena on github is more serious.
>
> Since its still quite early days on github, can I ask consideration be
> given to renaming the repo so we have...
>     https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm
>     https://github.com/bencoman/opensmalltalk-vm
> That it will show up in both searches for "smalltalk" and "vm"
> I think this is important to getting the most long term value out git & github.

Github help pages indicate existing infrastructure should continue to
work to the old name, easing the transition.
https://help.github.com/articles/renaming-a-repository/

For authorised users, this should link where the rename can be done..
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/settings

cheers -ben

>
> cheers -ben
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:35 PM Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 11:05 +0200, Denis Kudriashov wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe I am super stupid. But I just tried to find new GitHub
>>> > repository for VM and I can't.
>>> > Of course I found it here but Google and GitHub not show me any
>>> > results.
>>> > At least GitHub surprised me. Is anything correct with repo settings?
>>>
>>> Searching for 'OpenSmalltalk' got me the GitHub repo as the 3rd result
>>> with Google.  Since it's a new repo, perhaps it's still being added to
>>> the indexes and/or propagating out through their infrastructure and/or
>>> their algorithms are still deciding where it fits in the search
>>> results?  GitHub can also take several days before new projects can be
>>> found via their search.
>>
>>


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