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Stay on top of Github pull requests with Trailer.app

#1
Do you ever find yourself losing track of GitHub pull requests and comments? Do you think that having to check your email for notifications isn’t really integrated and is kind of spammy?

Well, we do. So we made Trailer.app (http://goo.gl/DY68RI) for your menu bar.

Whether you’re an open source project manager, a contributor, or a software engineer in a company; there’s a good chance that development is a social activity, and you’re probably using GitHub to support your work right?

We felt there should be a better option than email notifications. Nobody likes spam, except Monty Python fans.

Fortunately, Trailer.app is available! It’s an open source OS X menu bar app that lists pull requests you’re involved in and notifies you of any new activity.

Trailer is brought to you by the HouseTrip geek squad, and we’re really excited to open it up and see if it helps anyone else as much as it’s helped us.

Try it out, and please feel free to submit patches and ideas to Trailer’s GitHub repo! ^_^

(https://github.com/HouseTrip/trailer)

Re: Stay on top of Github pull requests with Trailer.app

#5

Nice app. Looks clean and straight-forward to use and I like the name! Also, thanks for open sourcing!! Only question, why just pull requests and not all GitHub issue activity?

Probably because we (HouseTrip) tend to not use Github issues for internal projects.

But that's a very valid point, thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps you'd like to open an issue on the Trailer repo and propose a change?

Re: Stay on top of Github pull requests with Trailer.app

#6
This is awesome, well done!

I just wanted to chime in and say I like your approach of just focusing on pull requests. There's another app I know of that just focuses on creating issues (http://issuepostapp.com).

I happen to be the author of another GitHub Issues client (http://neat.io/bee/github-issues-client.html) which is aimed at the other end of the spectrum: to be full-featured.

Great to see all these different approaches for different workflows.

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