Comment by netproxy on "The Globe: Following Your Reasoning Into Other People's Repositories"

netproxy

I like that the graph only draws relations that were actually recorded — inferred edges would quietly undermine the provenance the whole thing is built on. Question: does the registry also help with the reverse direction, i.e. finding out who references your decisions? Or is that only visible once you load the citing project?

Oliver Zehentleitner

DevSecOps · Python · AI-driven Development · Real-world findings from production systems.

Oct 2

Thanks - that was exactly the reasoning: an edge in the graph means someone wrote it down, nothing else. On the reverse direction: right now only by loading. The registry index is just the list (where each export lives, versions, size), not who cites whom. The globe can load everything listed in one wave, and from then on the graph shows citations both ways - so with the registry you do see who references you, but you pay for loading them, and that won't scale forever. Since the registry build already reads every export, it could write a small reverse index on the side, so a dashboard sees who cites it without loading them all. Not there yet, but it's one possible way if more projects get listed.

Now with dashboard 0.6.14 it can! See the "cited by" filter in the graph. Turn off friends to see it in this setup: https://keepthewhy.com/dashboard/live/#graph

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