On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Nate Finch <nate.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Godoc.org is pretty good for searching for packages to use.  It's not
> perfect, of course... it won't find things that it hasn't been told about,
> but that's on the project author to worry about.
>

Notably, this is no different from a centralized repository. Stuff that is
on github and was never uploaded to npm won't be discoverable via npm.
It's rather *better* with godoc.org, because *everyone* can tell it about a
package, not only the author.


> I'd like to see godoc add some quality metrics and maybe some popularity
> metrics, so it's easier to figure out what's a good package for X and what
> other people are using.
>

It already offers some of this in the form of "this package is imported by
X packages".
But yeah, it could certainly do better.

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