Re: [Haskell-cafe] idea: ratings (or maybe comments) for packages in hackage

* Simon Hengel [2013-11-04 23:45:36+0100]

Or maybe just integrating GitHub stars is the way to go? If this leads to more stars for Haskell projects on GitHub, this would also help to promote Haskell in the large open source community!

That's a great idea! The github url can be derived by checking the homepage url and the source repository location for the right pattern. (At least one of these should point to github.) Then we just need to send a GET request at http://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/stargazers and parse the JSON response. To avoid the delay while loading the page, I guess it's better to do this asynchronously on the client side. Anyone cares to write this piece of javascript? Roman