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A band you can book via GitHub pull request

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Interesting, I might look at this after I've turned the kettle on via reddit comment

> 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.

Hell, it works so well you won't even get legitimate requests.

You should be able to do all of this within the github UI without cloning locally.

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.

oh... it's a "PR" stunt is it?

ooh... it just hit me... PR == pull request == public relations

Totally missed that :)

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

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

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.

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).

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.

The edit file button in Github's web interface allow you to do pull requests that only impact one file very easily.

Yes, but, what if I wanted to get the blockchain involved somehow?

I have never felt so sad seeing a repo with no pull requests. ;-)

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.

Oops. :)

I loved the twists and turns on this one ;)

Substack (creator of browserify among others) is also available through github, but not sure if through PRs: https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire

Tangent: I really like the idea of a calendar backed by git, submit a patch / pull request for some of my time. Everyone can see your master branch, maybe a branch for private events.

You know, backed by git, don't expose even the porcelain commands.

-___- I thought this was being able to get rights to use a frequency band ...

Pretty lame! But, musicians are always desperate to stand out somehow and this is far from the bottom of the barrel.

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.

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.

it worked for they might be giants

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....

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".

What's wrong with YAGNI?

Also, pull-request could become the suggestion book of the future

I dig it!

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