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Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#11

Post by codeisawesome »

rplnt wrote: post #6

> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

Music 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.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#12

Post by rplnt »

codeisawesome wrote: post #11
rplnt wrote: post #6

> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

Music 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.

It'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.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#14

Post by arscan »

codeisawesome wrote: post #11
rplnt wrote: post #6

> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

Music 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.

According to their website, this is just an additional way to book them, not the only way.

http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#15

Post by mbrock »

codeisawesome wrote: post #11
rplnt wrote: post #6

> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

Music 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.

If that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#16

Post by kdamken »

So neat, but wow is that not the best way of doing something. It's good publicity, but you immediately cut the amount of people who can contact you down to just programmers. Much better to have a basic site with a phone number, email and contact form.

I wrote that and then googled them, to see what they had (http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/). Once again, asking to be contacted through facebook and twitter isn't really ideal, a contact form would be a welcome addition to this page.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#17

Post by arnehormann »

jamestanderson wrote: post #7
skrebe wrote: post #2

The only band I know you can book via GitHub pull request - Raw Funk Maharishi. They've got data focused blog too. Amazing http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/blog/

They're who the post is talking about!

you are replying to the original poster.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#18

Post by Roodgorf »

mbrock wrote: post #15
codeisawesome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music 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.

If that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?

Maybe 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.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

#19

Post by rplnt »

mbrock wrote: post #15
codeisawesome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music 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.

If that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?

In 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).

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