cedricbonhomme / freshermeat

An open source software directory and release tracker.

Hi there, I'm Cédric 👋

I'm a computer scientist, intensely interested in computer security and privacy. I contribute to many open source projects since more than 20 years. You can read more about me.

Some notable projects to which I contributed.

Recently on my blog

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Fosstodon

CIRCL Mastodon instance

freshermeat's Issues

Hardcoded url in about box (to register your project)

I found an hardcoded url in the about box:

https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/Freshermeat/blob/d145e5cf8fba934d549b6a0b7d9a217350c4cf93/src/web/templates/about.html#L26

Similar projects

Implement a "similar projects" feature. A list of similar projects will be displayed on the project details page. Firstly, it will be based on the tags.

DOAP

https://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki

More advanced statistics for projects

If we want to provide more advanced statistics (cloc, contribution grah, etc.) it will be needed to download the repositories, then analyse locally the repositories with something like gitinspector or maybe gitanalyzer.
This will be done periodically by a separate worker(s). First with a simple cron rule.

Implementing stacks of projects

This feature will let the users create their own collection of projects. A stack is a named set (list) of projects.

We could also think about dynamic stacks: stacks generated from a list of tags.

Later it will be possible to promote some stacks in the main page of Freshermeat.

Use Scrapy for the software release tracking functionality

Scrapy can be used to get basic information about open-source software, like release announcements.

It would be possible to write spiders for:

• GitHub JSON API release announcement;
• parse standard CHANGELOG files with regex;
• allow the users to define their own regex in spiders.

In fact almost like https://freshcode.club/

It would also be possible to write a parser in order to get CVEs about projects listed in Freshermeat.

Creating an org and project based on a single GitHub link

Creating an org and project based on a single GitHub link. I suppose this would be possible.

Add share buttons for projects

Amongst others:

• Mastodon / Twitter
• Google + / Diaspora
• Pinboard / Newspipe

Adding a meaningful title to each page

Adding a meaningful title to each page would be great to map the content of each pages.

Trove taxonomy

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/osapa/sf/freshmeat_trove

CC-0 and Public domain are missing as license

CC-0 and Public domain are missing as license