It would be really useful to have a scale of how willing a project is to accept contributions. You'd have a sense of how likely your patch or bug report is going to be acted on.
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Chekhov's repro: If a line of code is included in a bug report, it should contribute to the debugging somewhere.
It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic.
It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time).
It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.
I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline.
I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings.
https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep