Re: [boost] Help wanted: Open pull request reminders

Subject: Re: [boost] Help wanted: Open pull request reminders
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-23 12:51:38

On 23/10/2017 12:58, Beman Dawes via Boost wrote:
> As a library maintainer, I'd like to get periodic reminders of open pull
> requests for libraries I maintain and perhaps some other libraries I'm
> interested in. I'd like a email reminder, but others might prefer Slack or
> other forms of notification.
> 
> A related need is for anyone to be able to find the total number of open
> pull requests for Boost as a whole, and perhaps get a sorted list of the
> per library counts. Or maybe we should just show today's count on the web
> site?
> 
> Googling for "github open pull request reminders" shows that lots of others
> feel the same need. Would someone like to volunteer to review what others
> are doing to meet this need, and recommend an approach suitable for Boost?

A python cronjob script emailing a list of open pull requests for a repo
is trivially implementable using https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub

As with all things, firing something together for personal use is a ten
minute job, writing something reusable by others is many days of work.

Niall

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