2009 GitHub Contest

Copyright © 2009 Lucas Carlson
Website: https://www.rufy.com

Thanks

aguids – for being the first to try the idea of adding the main forked repositories
DocSavage – for the template for the readme and the license

Some ideas

At first, I tried simply giving the most globally popular repositories that the
user did not already watch. This was terrible at 8.103% success.

Then I saw aguids gain a major lead by using the main forked repositories as a
primary source. However aguids had a major flaw and did not fill in the entire
10 recommendations if there were not 10 forked repositories. This was a huge
boost up to 28.21%.

The next major breakthrough came when I incorporated unwatched repositories authored
by the same people that authored a persons watched repositories. In other words,
if you watch rails/rails, you probably will like rails/auto_complete. I took
that list and sorted it by popularity to put me up to 39.16%.

I have yet to find success by eliminating repositories based on dates or languages.

My latest breakthroughs are secret for now. They have brought me to 42.48%. Woot!

Why?

Why am I explaining my strategy? This is a contest after all. I guess I just like
the competition.

Licensing

Until August 30, 2009 at noon PST, this code is distributed under
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The Inverse MIT License

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