[cschmidt]

I imagine most HN people do know that Jekyll is a static blog generator written in Ruby, which is used by Github pages. However, he has a point that I often up on open source release announcements, and I don't know what the project is about, and there isn't an obvious link to the that information.

[andreif]

I believe Google has solved this problem pretty well

[neogodless]

It's really advice to the coder on spreading word about your project. If you want people to dig into it, help them. Don't make them go on a wild goose chase figuring out what the thing is in the first place. If you don't have a reason to care about something in the first few seconds, you'll move along and look at something else that is shiny.

[saosebastiao]

It hasn't really. Google doesn't read code and summarize purpose yet...that still requires people who understand to convey they message to those that don't.