[OH-Dev] Search Expansion

[Alex Chumbley]

Hi all,

So, I've been using Openhatch as a case study in both my UI/UX class and
OpenSource dev class for the past couple weeks. It's been fun, I've been
contributing in very trivial ways (github @chums923).

Anyway, I've been looking for a way to contribute something a little more
meaningful (one of the goals of this OpenSource class). I know that this
topic has been discussed before, but one that came to mind immediately was
how search is done. Currently, it's just done via bug trackers for
projects, but one could imagine we could offer a user a lot more to search.
We could allow people to search for:

1) Well maintained projects

2) Projects with large/small amount of contributors

3) Old/New projects

just to name a few. As it stands, people don't even know what a project is
about without a few extra navigation steps. All of this data currently
exists on a per bug basis, but not for the project. And it would all be
pretty easy to get via the Github API.


*tl;dr* I'd like to contribute something meaningful. Expanding search came
to mind (increases UX IMHO). If this doesn't jive with everyone, I'll get
back to the drawing board and come back with another proposal! (There's an
idea floating around in my head of having a mission that deals with testing)

Thanks,

Alex Chumbley
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