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A band you can book via GitHub pull request

122 points| skrebe | 10 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] jamespo|10 years ago|reply
Interesting, I might look at this after I've turned the kettle on via reddit comment
[+] rplnt|10 years ago|reply
> Fork the repo

> Clone your fork

> Create a branch

That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

[+] grayclhn|10 years ago|reply
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.
[+] deckar01|10 years ago|reply
You should be able to do all of this within the github UI without cloning locally.
[+] codeisawesome|10 years ago|reply
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.

[+] mrmcd|10 years ago|reply
Yes, but, what if I wanted to get the blockchain involved somehow?
[+] JoachimS|10 years ago|reply
I have never felt so sad seeing a repo with no pull requests. ;-)
[+] Terribledactyl|10 years ago|reply
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.

[+] dheera|10 years ago|reply
-___- I thought this was being able to get rights to use a frequency band ...
[+] daodedickinson|10 years ago|reply
Pretty lame! But, musicians are always desperate to stand out somehow and this is far from the bottom of the barrel.
[+] kdamken|10 years ago|reply
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.

[+] icebraining|10 years ago|reply
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.
[+] kazinator|10 years ago|reply
A good name for this band would be "Inappropriate Metaphor".
[+] Ironchefpython|10 years ago|reply
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".

[+] helloguille|10 years ago|reply
Also, pull-request could become the suggestion book of the future