HubMeme
HubMeme is a whimsical command-line tool to figure out how big a meme a user is on GitHub. Meme-ness is calculated by summing over all repositories a user has contributed to the product of their percentage contribution and the number of stars the repository has.
Installation
$ gem install hubmeme
Running it
You'll need a GitHub access token.
$ GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=something hubmeme username
How it works
- Tries to figure out all the repositories you've contributed to. GitHub doesn't make this directly accessible via the API as far as I can tell, so it checks your own repos; your organizations' repos; repos you've starred; repos you've made pull requests to; etc.
- Calculates your percentage contribution on each repo. The is using the “contributors” endpoint on the GitHub API; I'm not even sure exactly what the “contributions” number means, and it doesn't seem terribly accurate, but the stakes are pretty low here.
- Sums up the product of your contribution to each repo and the number of stars that repo has.
- Prints all that on the screen.
Here's what it prints out for me (all my friends are more meme):
brewster/elastictastic 80% 73 59
brewster/shearwater 72% 2 1
cequel/cequel 96% 61 59
kreynolds/cassandra-cql 9% 71 7
mongoid/mongoid 0% 2771 1
outoftime/eager_record 64% 35 23
outoftime/get_lit 82% 1 1
outoftime/harp 100% 3 3
outoftime/native_support 100% 3 3
outoftime/noaa 33% 68 23
outoftime/ottoman 100% 6 6
outoftime/outoftime.github.com 100% 2 2
outoftime/patch_log 100% 1 1
outoftime/search-contrib 100% 1 1
outoftime/sunspot-rails-example 87% 13 11
outoftime/sunspot_rails 6% 128 8
outoftime/woodchuck 100% 1 1
sunspot/sunspot 8% 1808 145
TOTAL MEME: 354
Known problems
- See items 1 and 2 under “How it works”
- Enables the worst kind of open-source navel-gazing; may end friendships
Contributing
Go for it!
License
Released under the MIT license copyright 2013 Mat Brown and his cat. See attached LICENSE for details.