Feature proposal: profile readmes

[ptman]

Description

Basically a clone of github profile readmes. Such a good feature that's built on git. Hopefully easy to implement, as it builds on the ability to render README.md that already exists.

Screenshots

This repository README.md https://github.com/simonw/simonw is visible at https://github.com/simonw

[fangmarks]

This'd be a really neat feature!

I currently link my main Account on my own Instance, but it would be neat if I could write a profile readme to basically list all my works, since they're not in one place and not every account on my instance is mine.

i.e. I could do something like this:

- [Account Name](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)

- [Account Name](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)
  - [Project](LINK)

This would make it, for me personally, easier to even put my personal Gitea on a Résumé/CV and then make it easy for potential employers to look through my works

[jolheiser]

What are thoughts on this simply being a field in profile settings?

Does it need to be in a magical repo with the same name as your username? (It does on GH, but in terms of Gitea)

I suppose being in a repo allows users to hook it into CI, but a repo with a single README always struck me as hacky.

[ptman]

Repo is much nicer, with history etc. Only put stuff in the DB when it needs to be queried.

[fangmarks]

i like how github did it tbh

[CodeDoctorDE]

It would be cool if it will be a thing in 1.16. If it will be possible, it makes sense to have this functionality on orgs too.

[fangmarks]

Having it on Orgs would be AMAZING, ngl.

A Description is neat but a profile readme, with the same support as all other markdown files, would be even better because we could go way more in depth when it comes to saying what an Org is about, if we choose to do that

[christaus]

We are in 2021 and I strongly agree with this feature, I fond this webpage looking for a way to use a README.md as profile on gitea.
This is absolutly a great idea on github, that could be on gitea.
Thank you for the one who will change the world to me 👍🏻 .

[lunny]

Where should we store the README.md? how about in a git repository named <user_name>/-/profile, so that you can git clone it and push to server?

[CodeDoctorDE]

In github its github.com/Username/Username

[lunny]

github.com/Username/Usernam maybe conflicted with user's repository. i.e. gitea/gitea. Or /~<user_name>, I think it's compatible with something.

[CodeDoctorDE]

On orgs, github uses .github as repository name like https://github.com/LinwoodCloud/.github. Maybe gitea.com/Username/.gitea repository?

[lunny]

On orgs, github uses .github as repository name like https://github.com/LinwoodCloud/.github. Maybe gitea.com/Username/.gitea repository?

That sounds also OK.

[christaus]

Simply like that: https://github.com/cGIfl300 it is stored on https://github.com/cGIfl300/cGIfl300 indeed the repository using your own nickname is indicated as "special" and the README.md is show next to your profile. (you can see my profile, I do use it)

[lunny]

Or we can reuse repository_type, so it's a profile repository, other types are template and etc.

[togetherwithasteria]

Don't forget to also implement this on organizations.

[Akselmo]

Really hope to see this, I think it makes exploring profiles more fun and especially now that federation is coming, it can help people find people easier.

[MisileLab]

This feature would be great!

[mind-overflow]

hey! no update on this?

[hrueschwein]

Also waiting for this :)

[pratik2315]

Hey there! I saw this issue listed on bsource a year back. I would like to work on it if its still open :)

[justusbunsi]

Hey there! I saw this issue listed on bsource a year back. I would like to work on it if its still open :)

@pratik2315 Contributions are always welcome. The issue is still open, there is no PR referenced, so... grab yourself a cup of tea and create some magic, I'd say. 😉

Feel free to join the Gitea Discord server in case you have questions. There is also a develop channel.

[pratik2315]

Hey there! So, I checked and as far as I know, the recommended way to have an Profile readme for Organizations is through .github repositories. So, the first step would be to create an .github repository for gitea. I did not find a .github repo in our org. If you guys don't mind, I could create a .github repo and then transfer the ownership to the gitea organization. and then work my way through to add profile readme and other related stuff. What'd you think?😁

[jolheiser]

@pratik2315 this proposal is for implementing profile readme in Gitea, not on GitHub for Gitea.

[pratik2315]

@pratik2315 this proposal is for implementing profile readme in Gitea, not on GitHub for Gitea.

Well technically the profile readme will be in gitea. and will be displayed in Gitea org. But I may be misunderstanding something😅 Can you pls elaborate more.

[pratik2315]

Im talking about implementing something like this:

.github repo: https://github.com/asyncapi/.github organisation profile: https://github.com/asyncapi

[jolheiser]

Yes, but implementing that in Gitea, the software.

Example: .gitea repo: https://gitea.com/gitea/.gitea Org profile: https://gitea.com/gitea

Note that the former will 404 because that's what this proposal is for, being able to display that content in the first place.

[pratik2315]

ahh! seems like i completely misunderstood what this proposal was about😅

[Tech1k]

I would really love to see this be implemented! :D

[HackerDaGreat57]

Oh yes, this is necessary. +1

[arlcrow]

+1