Show HN: Caine – A GitHub bot

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48 points·indutny··6 comments

Hello!

Just a couple of notes about it, in case if you haven't seen the README.md yet ;)

The Caine is a bot to help maintainers of large Open Source projects to off-load the tagging and assigning functions to the issue reporters.

The Caine will parse the CONTRIBUTING.md file and get all required info out of it. It will ask the authors of the issues to fill the form to help it tag the issue, and will tag it and assign to one of the maintainers after the proper reply.

We are currently using it for: https://github.com/iojs/io.js . Which should (ideally) let us unsubscribe from unfiltered github notifications, and get emails only for the issues that we was assigned to.

indutny, as always, great job. I consider you one of the most important persons of Javascript's ecosystem.

It's very pleasant seeing Javascript mixed with everything.

Thanks a lot!

Here is an example of what it does to an issue. It wasn't immediately obvious from the README. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/105

The charme of the github issue tracker is its simplicity.

Polluting every issue thread with some kind of interactive quiz very much ruins that.

If you want formalized bug-reports then you should rather upgrade to a more sophisticated issue tracker (redmine, mantis, bugzilla, etc).

No offense, but who are you to tell people what they should or shouldn't "upgrade" to when there are in fact tools to do the job they maybe need done?

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