heythere - a robot to automate GitHub issue comments

GitHub issues are great for humans to correspond over software, or any other project. At rOpenSci we use an issue based software review system (ropensci/onboarding). Software authors and reviewers go back and forth on the software, making a better product in the end. We have a relatively small number of pieces of software under review at any one time compared to e.g., scientific journals - however, even with the small number, we as organizers, and authors and reviewers can forget things....

March 24, 2016 ยท 4 min