Context of the Proposal
The AwesomeDOT repository curates a comprehensive list of tools, projects, and resources in the Polkadot ecosystem. It’s currently the most popular aggregator in the ecosystem with 100+ ⭐️ on Github. What initially started as a community-driven awesome-list is now starting to become challenging to maintain in terms of accuracy, relevance, and user-friendliness as the ecosystem grows.
Community Support
After talking to a bunch of ecosystem members and core contributors, including @kianenigma and @shawntabrizi, we got a bunch of feedback, highlighting the need for a robust platform that provides valuable and up to date aggregation of the Polkadot ecosystem.
Here are the links to the discussion:
GitHub Issue: awesome-dot/issues/26
Polkadot Forum: Visibility Initiative
Feedback from Shawn on the Polkadot forum: Link to Post
Key Features
AwesomeDot Website: An intuitive layout for discovering projects, categories, and relevant metadata. It will provide a responsive design that showcases detailed project information and fosters community engagement.
Liveness Bot: Automates detection of stale or abandoned projects via recent commit checks, flags or removes dead links. It will run on GitHub Actions for scheduled or event-based checks, keeping the list current.
Metrics Bot & Data Integration: Fetches project metrics (e.g., stars, forks, last commit date) from GitHub displaying them on the website, helping users quickly identify active, healthy projects.
About Awesomedot
The AwesomeDOT community consists of experienced members actively contributing to the Polkadot ecosystem, maintaining the Awesome-DOT GitHub repository. It has over 100+ stars and contributions from senior community members like Dr. Radha Krishna Dasari and Kian Paimani.
Please feel free to review the Proposal here: Proposal link