gmodstore.com Integration / what badges are in scope for Shields

[pointydev]

Hey there peeps,

Just looking for some opinions on having some badges for https://gmodstore.com so we could have premade version and rating shields to put on script info pages. They have an API which ya can find here: https://www.gmodstore.com/help/api/

I'll probably be making an implementation later if others don't disagree (per advice from @PyvesB), so feel free to give feedback.

Thanks,
Elliott

[paulmelnikow]

To summarize what I said in Discord:

• With two caveats, this is the answer i gave last year to a question about what's in scope for shields: [Question] Acceptable types of badges #1169 (comment)
• First caveat: is using gmod programming, or widely used by game developers? that would make a good argument that it's in scope.
• Second caveat: we've a languishing PR [badge-json] new "badge-json" service #1525 which contains a bunch of good design work on a new way of specifying a dynamic badge. We could revive that, and update it to harmonize with new-style services. Combined with Runkit endpoints which look absolutely fabulous, folks who want to can use shields as a rendering and caching provider that sits in front of a runkit endpoint. (Badgen has this.)
• Shields is open source but there's no requirement that the tools be open source. lots of them aren't

@pointydev's response:

well gmod is a highly moddable game which involves a dev codebase behind it all, and gmodstore (my suggestion) is a marketplace for developers to sell their addons and services, its primary purpose

That seems to place it solidly in the realm of the other app stores, like chrome web store, etc.

This could all be made clearer in CONTRIBUTING.md, which talks about inclusion guidelines for logos, but not badges.

Our page title on https://shields.io/ could possibly make it clearer as well, that this is a tool for developers, including but not exclusive to open source development.

[paulmelnikow]

Looks like this was documented in #2042.