Sort by Recently updated

[ritwik12]

As per @AllanOcelot in #1140, it will be good to have a sort by recently updated or most active for projects.

[Zarad1993]

Hey @ritwik12 - Just breaking down this, since we don't have timestamps on the project information. I believe we will be tracking down by using GH APIs
Maybe recently updated by hitting each repository on GH to pull down the latest PRs merged for a given week/month and sort accordingly? Hence, just a popup question, are there any keys to be stored somewhere for GH interaction in the project?

[ritwik12]

@Zarad1993 Yes, we need to hit GH for this for each repository and collect the last updated time for a repo.
What we can do is to collect last updated time of each repo in a file and just sort that file based on recently updated. I guess mapping based on key for projects and their recently updated time is very much needed. Doing all this from scratch will not be so easy so I will recommend using some pre built tool or API which can do this and then map projects accordingly.

[ritwik12]

@Zarad1993 Since it could be a big feature request so it'll be good to break it down in steps so that help from others could also be taken if required.

[ritwik12]

Few references for this:
https://serverfault.com/questions/401437/how-to-retrieve-the-last-modification-date-of-all-files-in-a-git-repository

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#list-commits-on-a-repository

google/go-github#821

[ritwik12]

@AllanOcelot It will be good to have your reviews on this issue time to time.

[Zarad1993]

Thanks @ritwik12 . Just a note since we don't have specific key values for repo and owner
We do store the Site's github URL and that is just assuming the Sites that exist on GH and not other sources.

[ritwik12]

@Zarad1993 Yeah, also not all site URL are github repo URLs but approx 80-90 percent URL are github URLs.

[savvaspc]

Hello guys. I'm new here and new to contributing to OSS in general. I would like to suggest using the Github Rest API v3. A simple GET request can return all info about a repo, including "updated_at" and "pushed_at". For example, https://api.github.com/repos/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net returns all the info about this repository.

[savvaspc]

Update: It looks like Github API allows 60 requests/hour for unregistered requests. Using some form of OAuth can raise this to 5000/hour.

Anyway, I have created code in projectsService.js that gathers all projects with github urls, sends the requests and processes the responses to add a ''lastUpdateTime" field in _projectsData.projects[i]. I'm now working on sorting the array based on these timestamps and after that I think I will upload the code on my fork for you to see it. I haven't done anything about the html part (maybe we can add a "sort by recently active" button with a warning that some projects might not support this feature). So far, I'm not very familiar with how the data is being presented on screen.

[ritwik12]

@savvas94 This looks good, Please send a PR for this for whatever you have done till now and make checks checklists for adding more code. It'll be good to do it step wise so that you'll not spend lots of time doing something different.

[mrahmatu]

Hello, I am looking to contribute to an open source application as a part of my final project for a course. I have a team of five members, and I see many open issues currently. I wanted to know if this issue is active and if I can work on it?