Badge for another repo queried issues

[apobekiaris]

hi

I generated this badge

[![](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/eXpandFramework/Packages.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/eXpandFramework/eXpand/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Apackages).

at the moment of posting the query returns 1 issue

however the badge displays zero

[apobekiaris]

here the solution

[![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/eXpandFramework/expand/Packages.svg)]

[paulmelnikow]

Aha! I wonder if we can improve the error handling there. That's one of the badges which hasn't been refactored yet. It'll probably get examined when that happens.

[apobekiaris]

though this project is super powerfull it's a bit hard to understand how to configure when you first comer. Maybe you should unit test the examples on the site, or provide more realistic ones that work and not just images.

[paulmelnikow]

Improving error messages is something we've been working on over the last year or so, though as I look closer at this, I'm not sure we could do any better here. You have a repo in the same org called Packages, which means the badge you asked for is valid. This is the test of the "repo not found" case for that badge:

shields/services/github/github-issues.tester.js

Lines 112 to 117 in 872aede

	t.create('GitHub open issues (repo not found)')
	.get('/issues-raw/badges/helmets.json')
	.expectJSON({
	name: 'open issues',
	value: 'repo not found',
	})

Was the difficulty figuring out how to plug the values into the right place? I'm working on #2496 along those lines, which should make it easier to correctly construct a badge URL from parts.

In case it's helpful to you in the meantime, all of the badges have one fully working example. It's either there from the start, like this one:

Or is listed as a separate Example, like this one:

Finally, we're serious about improving this stuff, though we're all volunteers. There are lots of ways you can help: good first issue New contributors, join in!