Danger Plugin API

[andrew]

@orta tweeted yesterday about using the Libraries API for getting information about projects for Danger: https://twitter.com/orta/status/854110094476406784, related github issue: danger/danger-js#227 (comment)

@orta has already got a stats API for cocoapods: https://cocoadocs-api-cocoapods-org.herokuapp.com/pods/FDBarGuage/stats, going to break down the bits we have and the bits we don't (but could have) availabe via the API.

On a side note, this information is also useful for the Chrome extension I'm working on: https://github.com/librariesio/extension

Attribute	Data available in the API
Very Popular	✅ SourceRank, dependents and stars if on Github
Popular	✅ SourceRank, dependents and stars if on Github
Supports Swift Package Manager	🏗 we have the manifest file like Swift.package but not currently available via the API
Great Documentation	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Documentation	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Badly Documented	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Great README	🏗 we have readme contents but not currently in the API
Minimal README	🏗 we have readme contents but not currently in the API
Empty README	🏗 we have readme contents but not currently in the API
Has a CHANGELOG	✅ has the path to changelog/history/changes file on GH/GL/BB
Built in Swift	✅ We have the main language if the repo is hosted on GH/BB
Built in Objective-C++	✅ We have the main language if the repo is hosted on GH/BB
Uses GPL	✅ We have the licenses that the project and repo is available under
Uses WTFPL	✅ We have the licenses that the project and repo is available under
Has Tests	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Test Expectations / Line of Code	⏲ not currently known but possible to add although very language specific
Install size	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Lines of Code / File	⏲ not currently known but possible to add once we store the source code for each library
Verified Owner	⏲ not currently known but possible to add, different for each package manager
Post-1.0.0	✅ We have the version numbers
Is Deprecated	✅ We have the status
Lots of open issues	✅ We have the open issue counts if hosted on GH

On another side note, the Cocoapods quality metrics (https://guides.cocoapods.org/making/quality-indexes.html) are very GitHub centric at the moment, we can definitely help them break free of the monoculture now that we have support for GitLab and Bitbucket.

[orta]

Yeah, there's definitely some super-CP focused points inside the results - but yeah, I can definitely use a bunch of this, woooooo

[KrauseFx]

That's awesome 🚀

[andrew]

Moving this to the Backlog as we'd still like to implement it but can't see that happening in the near future.