Browser and install GUI for cookiecutter templates

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Overview

Artifact ID: 5e914f5c9d775bdad6751c02a43a18f65ab3365f9cd52c5a5980cfdae0e4ce8a
Page Name:contribue
Date: 2021-03-22 06:14:32
Original User: mario
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Contributions

This project hinges on an updated cookiecutters database. Unfortunately that's quite time-consuming. So new templates might not find their way in here - without feedback/submissions from authors.

Not sure if there's enough interest, but this would require either automating the database build, or providing a submission API. Or both.

Automation

  • There's the dev/ scripts as basis.
  • Ideally it would be rewritten to also support BitBucket/GitLab/etc.
    • The lack of common API is a real showstopper though.
    • (I don't blame GitHub alone.)
    • And obviously there's no library that interfaces with all alike.
  • Wouldn't be too difficult to bring this into the GUI even. (Though it takes around half an hour to collect project repositories on GH.)

Submit API

  • It might be easiest to query individual projects, and just provide a submission endpoint.
  • The fossil repository is SQLite-based, so would allow nearby storage.
  • Albeit you would still need a moderation step, rather than automatic updates for the main uidata.json.
  • Or possibly just use the fossil ticket or forum feature.
    • In which case, you could help out by reviewing/approving tickets.

Join

  • If interested, register a repository account here (no email necessary).
  • Drop a mail for developer elevation;
  • Read up on fossil usage.
  • It's significantly easier than git, and you can't easily break things.

Manual submissions

For now: you can send in a full JSON blob per email (see LICENSE), if you want your template be updated or added.