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A good name for this band would be "Inappropriate Metaphor".
"I hope they play their old stuff like 'You Ain't Gonna Need It", and 'Now You Have Two Problems'. Their new album, 'Second-Systems Syndrome', took forever to be released, and doesn't have the same simple sounds".
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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.
A good name for this band would be "Inappropriate Metaphor".
It's the "Anti-Pattern Tour", with "Inappropriate Metaphor" being joined on stage by the techno-rock band "Impedance Mismatch", followed by the soulful sounds of "Leaky Abstraction". "I hope they play their old stuff like 'You Ain't Gonna Need It", and 'Now You Have Two Problems'. Their new album, 'Second-Systems Syndrome', took forever to be released, and doesn't have the same simple sounds".
> 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.
You know, backed by git, don't expose even the porcelain commands.
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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.
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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.