Exploring Unseen Open Source Infrastructure (opens in new tab)

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40 pointsandrewnez9y ago4 comments

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Along this line, there's an excellent writeup from the Ford Foundation on this topic: http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/ro...

whitten9y ago

This study reminds me that our computer infrastructure (cables, network connections etc) depend also on the physical infrastructure. For example, If there weren't steam tunnels on campus, it would be a LOT harder to pull fiber optic cables to allow for intranet connectivity.

diggan9y ago

It should rather be called "unseen open source dependencies" instead of infrastructure. On that note though, would be interesting to see how open source projects are running their infrastructure.

Speaking about dependencies, I saw something on Github that I have not seeing before, "Dependents" in the "Graphs" section[0]. This says "No packages depend on this repository yet. We'll keep watching to see if any packages add this repository as a dependency." but I have yet come across any repository with dependencies or how to add that a repository is a dependency to another.

Anyone know what that is about?

[0] - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/network/dependents - http://i.imgur.com/USSLz3U.png

nantes9y ago

Looks like it was added in January[0], but this is the first I'm hearing about/seeing it as well.

Edit: Here's the repo[1] they show in the screenshot.

[0] https://github.com/blog/2300-visualize-your-project-s-commun... [1] https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/network/dependents

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