Future Plans for ghops
This document outlines planned features and enhancements for ghops
, organized by priority and complexity.
🎉 v0.6.0 - Major Milestone Completed ✅
Architecture & Quality Overhaul
- ✅ Complete Modular Redesign: Separated all functionality into dedicated command modules
- ✅ Comprehensive Testing: 138 tests achieving 86% code coverage
- ✅ Robust Error Handling: Graceful handling of network failures and edge cases
- ✅ Performance Optimizations: Optional API checks with performance flags
- ✅ Enhanced Documentation: Complete rewrite of README, usage guide, and API docs
Enhanced Feature Set
- ✅ Advanced Configuration: JSON/TOML support with environment variable overrides
- ✅ License Management: Full GitHub API integration with template customization
- ✅ Social Media Automation: Multi-platform support with template-driven content
- ✅ GitHub Pages Detection: Multi-method detection for documentation sites
- ✅ Improved PyPI Integration: Enhanced package detection and version tracking
Previously Implemented ✅
PyPI Package Detection and Management
- ✅ Package Detection: Scan repositories for
pyproject.toml
,setup.py
,setup.cfg
- ✅ PyPI Status Check: Query PyPI API to verify packages and get version info
- ✅ Status Integration: Include PyPI package and version columns in status output
- ✅ Statistics Tracking: Track repos with packages, published packages, outdated packages
- ✅ Performance Options:
--no-pypi-check
flag for faster results
Configuration System
- ✅ Config File Support:
~/.ghopsrc
with JSON/TOML format support - ✅ Example Generation:
ghops config generate
command - ✅ Environment Override:
GHOPS_CONFIG
and per-setting environment variables
Social Media Framework
- ✅ Platform Support: Framework for Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Mastodon
- ✅ Smart Sampling: Random repository selection for content with filtering
- ✅ Template System: Configurable post templates for different content types
- ✅ Preview Mode:
--dry-run
flag to preview posts before publishing - ✅ Rate Limiting: Daily limits and time-based posting controls
🚀 Next Release Goals (v0.7.0)
Priority 1: Core Usability Improvements 🎯
Single Repository Operations
Motivation: Fix the critical usability gap where ghops
does nothing when run inside a git repository.
Current Problem:
cd ~/my-awesome-project # This is a git repo
ghops status # Does nothing - very confusing!
ghops update # Does nothing - breaks user expectations
Expected Behavior:
cd ~/my-awesome-project # This is a git repo
ghops status # Shows detailed status of THIS repo
ghops update # Updates THIS repo with enhanced output
ghops license add mit # Adds license to THIS repo
Implementation Features:
- Smart Mode Detection: Auto-detect if current directory is a git repository
- Single vs Batch Modes:
- Single repo mode: Detailed output, repo-specific operations
- Batch mode: Summary tables, multi-repo operations
- Unified Command Interface:
ghops status
- Auto-detects mode based on current directoryghops status --batch
- Force batch mode even in git directoryghops status --single
- Force single mode even outside git directory- Enhanced Single-Repo Output: More detailed information when focusing on one repository
Programmatic API
Motivation: Enable ghops
integration into Python scripts, automation systems, and provide better developer experience.
API Design Goals:
- Clean Python Interface: Full programmatic access to all
ghops
functionality - Type Safety: Complete type hints for IDE support and better developer experience
- Async Support: For operations involving network calls and batch processing
- Documentation: Auto-generated API docs via docstrings and MkDocs
Example API Usage:
from ghops import api
from pathlib import Path
# Single repository operations
repo = api.repository(Path.cwd())
status = repo.get_status()
pypi_info = repo.get_pypi_info()
pages_url = repo.get_pages_url()
# Batch operations
results = api.scan_repositories(
directory="~/projects",
recursive=True,
filters={"language": "python", "has_pyproject": True}
)
# Social media operations
posts = api.create_social_posts(
repositories=results.with_packages(),
template="pypi_release",
dry_run=True
)
Implementation Strategy:
- CLI as Thin Wrapper: Refactor CLI to use the programmatic API internally
- Result Objects: Structured returns instead of console output
- Error Handling: Proper exception hierarchy for programmatic error handling
- Testing: API makes comprehensive testing much easier
Priority 2: Enhanced Functionality âš¡
Auto-Package Generation
Motivation: Make it easy to convert existing repositories into publishable Python packages.
- New command:
ghops package init
to bootstrap packaging for repositories - Smart defaults:
- Package name from repository directory name
- Version starts at
0.1.0
- Author/email from
git config
- Dependencies from
requirements.txt
if available - Template generation: Create minimal but complete
pyproject.toml
- Interactive mode: Prompt for key metadata when auto-detection isn't sufficient
Publishing Automation
- New command:
ghops package publish
for automated PyPI uploads - Version management: Integration with version bumping
- Build automation: Automatic wheel and sdist generation
- Safety checks: Verify package before upload
- Batch publishing: Publish multiple packages with version updates
Repository Filtering and Selection
Smart Filtering System
Motivation: When managing hundreds of repositories, you need fine-grained control over which repositories to operate on.
.ghopsignore
files: Similar to.gitignore
, but for excluding repositories from operations- Base directory: Place
.ghopsignore
in the root directory to set global exclusions - Subdirectory filtering:
.ghopsignore
in subdirectories excludes repos in that subtree - Self-exclusion: If a repository directory contains
.ghopsignore
, it excludes itself - Pattern matching: Support glob patterns, regex, and path-based exclusions
- Command-line filters: One-off filtering for specific operations
--include
and--exclude
flags with glob patterns--filter
for complex expressions (e.g.,--filter "language:python AND has:pyproject.toml"
)--limit N
to operate on only N repositories (useful for testing)- Whitelist mode: Invert the filtering logic
--whitelist-only
mode where only explicitly included repositories are processed- Useful for focusing on specific projects while ignoring everything else
- Can be combined with
.ghopsinclude
files for persistent whitelist configuration - Smart selection:
--changed-only
: Only repositories with uncommitted changes--outdated-only
: Only repositories behind their remote--python-only
: Only repositories with Python code--has-issues
: Only repositories with open GitHub issues
Filter Configuration
- Filter profiles: Named filter configurations for different use cases
ghops config filter create work --include "work/*" --exclude "*/archive/*"
ghops config filter create python --filter "language:python"
ghops status --filter-profile python
- Interactive selection: TUI for selecting repositories visually
- Filter testing:
ghops filter test
to see which repositories match current filters
Medium-term Goals (v0.7.0 - v0.8.0)
Enhanced Repository Intelligence
Language and Framework Detection
- Programming language detection: Beyond just Python, detect Go, Rust, JavaScript, etc.
- Framework identification: Detect React, Django, FastAPI, etc.
- Dependency analysis: Parse
requirements.txt
,package.json
,Cargo.toml
, etc. - Technology stack visualization: Show the full tech stack for each repository
Repository Health Metrics
- Code quality indicators: Last commit date, test presence, documentation coverage
- Community metrics: Star count, fork count, issue count, contributor count
- Maintenance status: Detect abandoned or actively maintained projects
- Security analysis: Check for known vulnerabilities in dependencies
Enhanced GitHub Integration
Issues and Pull Requests
- Issue management: List open issues across all repositories
- PR status: Track open pull requests and their status
- Review assignments: See which PRs need your attention
- Milestone tracking: Monitor progress toward repository milestones
GitHub Actions Integration
- Workflow status: See the status of CI/CD pipelines across repositories
- Failed builds: Quickly identify repositories with failing tests
- Deployment status: Track which repositories have pending deployments
- Action summaries: Aggregate build success rates and performance metrics
Advanced Social Media Features
Real Social Media API Integration
- Twitter/X API: Full implementation with tweet posting
- LinkedIn API: Professional network posting for project updates
- Mastodon API: Decentralized social media support
- Instagram API: Visual content for project screenshots
- Reddit API: Automated posting to relevant programming subreddits
Content Intelligence
- Engagement tracking: Monitor which posts perform best
- Optimal timing: Learn the best times to post for your audience
- Hashtag optimization: Suggest trending and relevant hashtags
- Content personalization: Adapt content style based on platform
- Analytics dashboard: Track social media impact on repository metrics
Automated Campaigns
- Release announcements: Auto-post when new versions are published
- Documentation updates: Announce new documentation or tutorials
- Achievement celebrations: Post about star milestones, contributor achievements
- Event-driven posting: React to GitHub events (new stars, forks, etc.)
Long-term Goals (v0.9.0 - v1.0.0)
Analytics and SEO Enhancement
Google Analytics Integration
Motivation: Improve discoverability and track the impact of your open source projects.
- Analytics setup automation:
- GitHub Pages: Auto-configure Google Analytics for GitHub Pages sites
- Documentation sites: Add analytics to MkDocs, Sphinx, GitBook, etc.
- README badges: Generate analytics-enabled badges for repository READMEs
- Custom domains: Handle analytics for repositories with custom domain GitHub Pages
- SEO optimization:
- Meta tag generation: Auto-generate SEO-friendly meta tags for GitHub Pages
- Sitemap generation: Create and update sitemaps for better search indexing
- Schema markup: Add structured data for better search result presentation
- Open Graph tags: Optimize social media sharing with proper OG tags
- Content optimization:
- README analysis: Suggest improvements for better search visibility
- Keyword optimization: Analyze and suggest keywords based on repository content
- Description optimization: Improve repository descriptions for search engines
- Topic suggestions: Recommend GitHub topics to improve discoverability
- Performance tracking:
- Traffic analysis: Aggregate analytics across all your repositories
- Conversion tracking: Track downloads, clones, stars from different sources
- Search ranking: Monitor how your repositories rank for relevant keywords
- Referrer analysis: Understand where your traffic is coming from
Analytics Reporting
- Dashboard generation: Create unified analytics dashboards across all repositories
- Trend analysis: Track growth patterns and identify successful strategies
- Goal tracking: Set and monitor specific objectives (downloads, stars, contributors)
- Competitive analysis: Compare your repositories against similar projects
Advanced GitHub Operations
Repository Management
- Repository creation: Create new repositories with templates and best practices
- Branch management: Bulk operations on branches across repositories
- Webhook management: Set up and manage webhooks for automation
- Settings synchronization: Keep repository settings consistent across projects
Team Collaboration
- Team management: Manage collaborators and permissions across repositories
- Organization tools: Tools for managing repositories at the organization level
- Access auditing: Review and audit access permissions
- Compliance reporting: Generate reports for security and compliance requirements
Enterprise Features
Performance and Scalability
- Parallel processing: Optimize for handling hundreds of repositories
- Caching strategies: Cache GitHub API responses for better performance
- Incremental updates: Only process changed repositories
- Background processing: Queue long-running operations
Integration and Extensibility
- Plugin system: Allow third-party extensions and customizations
- API endpoints: Provide REST API for integration with other tools
- Webhook support: React to external events and trigger ghops operations
- IDE integration: Plugins for VS Code, PyCharm, etc.
Enterprise Management
- Multi-user support: Support for teams and organizations
- Role-based access: Different permission levels for different users
- Audit logging: Comprehensive logging for enterprise compliance
- Backup and restore: Backup configurations and restore operations
Implementation Roadmap
Phase 1: Core Usability (v0.7.0)
- Single repository operation mode with smart detection
- Programmatic API with full type hints and async support
- Enhanced single-repo output and error handling
- CLI refactoring to use the API internally
Phase 2: Package Management & Filtering (v0.8.0)
- Auto-package generation (
ghops package init
) - Publishing automation (
ghops package publish
) .ghopsignore
file support- Command-line filtering options
- Filter profiles and testing
Phase 3: Repository Intelligence (v0.9.0)
- Language and framework detection
- Repository health metrics
- Enhanced GitHub integration (issues, PRs, actions)
Phase 4: Advanced Social Media (v1.0.0)
- Real API integrations for all platforms
- Content intelligence and optimization
- Automated campaign management
Phase 5: Analytics and SEO (v1.1.0)
- Google Analytics automation
- SEO optimization tools
- Traffic analysis and reporting
Phase 6: Enterprise Features (v1.2.0)
- Performance optimizations
- Advanced GitHub operations
- Team collaboration features
- Plugin system and extensibility
Contributing to These Goals
We welcome contributions in all these areas! If you're interested in working on any of these features:
- Check existing issues: Many of these are tracked as GitHub issues
- Start a discussion: Open an issue to discuss your approach
- Small PRs: Start with small, focused pull requests
- Documentation: Help improve docs and examples
- Testing: Add tests for new features and edge cases
The future of ghops
is exciting, and we're building it together with the community!