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> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...
by rplnt 11y ago
> Fork the repo
> Clone your fork
> Create a branch
That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...
- grayclhn 11y agoThat was my first thought too, but I bet the pull request approach is really hard to spam. As I get more and more quasi work-related spam emails, that looks more and more appealing.
- khgvljhkb 11y agoI think easier to automate than to do by hand. All of this can be automated with sh, git & sed.
- emodendroket 11y agoHell, it works so well you won't even get legitimate requests.
- deckar01 11y agoYou should be able to do all of this within the github UI without cloning locally.
- codeisawesome 11y agoMusic can be a highly creative endeavour and perhaps that's what I should judge this "request our band for your event" UX on. But dang that's terrible UX, IMO. I wonder how negatively this affects their sales.
- rplnt 11y agoIt's a PR stunt, nothing more. It's innovative and it seems to work to get their name out there, albeit to a very specific demographic.
- mrmcd 11y agooh... it's a "PR" stunt is it?
- jaybosamiya 11y agoooh... it just hit me... PR == pull request == public relations
- rplnt 11y agoTotally missed that :)
- arscan 11y agoAccording to their website, this is just an additional way to book them, not the only way. http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/
- mbrock 11y agoIf that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?
- Roodgorf 11y agoMaybe for this particular use case, I don't really see how it says anything about the UX for actually using GitHub for it's intended purpose.
- rplnt 11y agoIn the intended workflow, the PR itself is a very small part of the process. You fork the repo, study it, analyze it, work on it, test it, ..etc (99% of time spent), you create pull request (1%). Plus there is a reason for the PR - you describe your changes, provide reasoning for them, allow many parties to review them. With the concert request there is nothing to do, just create the request with specific data (something that would work MUCH better through a web form) and there is no reason to have it public as only relevant people to comment are you and the band's manager (something that would work well through email).
- mbrock 11y agoSorry, semi rhetorical question. Still, there's no easy way to do a quick PR on GitHub. That might be intentional. I suspect it's also intentional on the part of the band—they say if you do a proper PR it's very possible that they'll agree, so it's a kind of proof of work.
- Widdershin 11y agoThe edit file button in Github's web interface allow you to do pull requests that only impact one file very easily.