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Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by icebraining »

kdamken wrote: post #16

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…

Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by kdamken »

icebraining wrote: post #21
kdamken wrote: post #16

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…

Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially pretentious.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by khgvljhkb »

grayclhn wrote: post #8
rplnt wrote: post #6

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

That 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.

I think easier to automate than to do by hand.

All of this can be automated with sh, git & sed.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by moftz »

icebraining wrote: post #21
kdamken wrote: post #16

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…

Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by mbrock »

rplnt wrote: post #19
mbrock wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 (somet…

Sorry, 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.

Re: A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Post by iamdave »

moftz wrote: post #24
icebraining wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.

Something tells me this isn't the only way they'll allow themselves to be contacted for bookinng....
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