Does somebody know what are the technologies behind the GitHub for Windows UI? It looks incredible.
As stated by this blog post
We've mashed up the elegant Caliburn.Micro with Reactive Ui to provide a responsive interface and to allow for greater testability.
For more information about Reactive Extensions, you can check Paul Betts' latest talk, one of the creators of GitHub for Windows.
By the way, the "incredible look" may also come from the design research and work. You'll find some cover story of the UI topic in this post Designing GitHub for Windows, by Tim Clem, also one of the GfW creators.
Github now releases more information at https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github
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I'm part of several teams that depend heavily on GitHub's convenient "send an email every time anyone pushes commits" service, which is slated to disappear in a few weeks. I'm aware that it's been deprecated in favor of a more general WebHooks mechanism, but the docs are not very clear on exactly how one would instantiate the general mechanism to get back what the existing one does.
What is the easiest way to replicate the functionality that's going away?
Beside the original post (Replacing Services with webhooks), you have:
GitHub Actions, still in beta, but which should make it possible to accomplishes this (registration here).
efforts made to look for a webhook-based alternative.
For instance: pyinstaller/pyinstaller issue 3579. But there are no clear answer yet.
Update Feb. 2020: this issue is now closed (GitHub Actions are very much the standard now)
As far as I can tell, GitHub has now restored the previous functionality and even documented it again: https://help.github.com/articles/about-email-notifications-for-pushes-to-your-repository
I'm considering moving my open-source project Flyway from Google Code to GitHub.
One of the features I really like in Google Code's Issue Tracker is the ability to vote and sort issues by the number of votes. This has allowed me to get a good feel of where current pain points lie and what the community feels needs attention or further work.
How can I achieve something similar on GitHub? Is there a way to maintain a democratic approach to Issue Tracking?
There is no built-in ability to do so. Technically speaking, you can only manage issues by
assignee
tags (called labels at github)
milestones
While you can define label systems for lots of differentation criteria like
bug/feature request/...
prio high/low/...
status verified/unverified
it is simply not possible to have something that accumulates votes. So typically you will see "+1" postings as in good old mailing lists. I've seen people using external voting systems (like Google moderator) for issues on github, but that doesn't make a good user experience either.
If you're willing to use a third-party system that integrates with GitHub, you can try GitPoll.
hello supersmart stackoverflow users!
Im wondering.. is there any software or tool (web based or otherwise) that helps and streamlines the whole technical and functional specification writing process so that we as developers/website can sit with clients, assess what they want to create/achieve and write up the spec efficiently and easily so that when its approved it can easily be passed onto the webdev people and they can create what is set out in the specification?
Thank you in advance!
Specfox is a SaaS designed just for that. You upload the screens (layouts or screen grabs), add notes and pinpoint to page elements, and generate PDFs to share with copywriters, designers and developers, or whoever you need to involve. It was the best online website specifications tool I found for a website redesign we did.
If you're still looking, take a look at Axure. It's built just for this. It's awesome
I help out at a local soup kitchen, and they are wanting to create a website. Most of their criteria are pretty simple, they want to be able to have a calendar, post pictures, and have a blog. However they also want to be able to manage volunteer's. They want to be able to post a event, have a list of jobs that they need volunteer's for that event, and allow people to sign up for the jobs. I would like to base this website on a well known platform like DotNetNuke, WordPress, or Drupal. Before I go and code my own plugin for managing volunteers I decided to see if I could find a platform that already has a module available. So far I have not been able to find anything. Has anybody heard of one or used one in the past? I would appreciate any suggestions.
There's a whole range of ways to do this, but I haven't ever seen a dedicated solution (plugin or otherwise).
On the one hand, a blog could do all that you're asking. Posting pictures and blog entries? That's wordpress all over. Want a calendar? We have a plugin for that. Want to let volunteers sign up for stuff? Let them post comments.
On the other hand, the problem you're describing isn't unique: In my own experience I've wanted the software you describe. May I suggest that, if you have the time, you make something totally awesome for the volunteer community?
Our company, Wired Impact, recently released a plugin called Wired Impact Volunteer Management that provides exactly the functionality you're looking for. You can learn more and download the plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wired-impact-volunteer-management/.
I would like to setup a portal for my development team to share the ideas, reports, documents, images, etc. Something similar to MS SharePoint but free/open source.
Can you please share what do you guys use for the same?
Check out DotNetNuke
Trac and MediaWiki would be my top two picks, depending on whether or not you wanted ticketing integrated. Don't forget, also, that MediaWiki has a robust plugin ecosystem, so anything you wanted to add above and beyond wiki and discussion functionality might well be available.
Redmine is another good pick - I don't love it quite as well as Trac, but it's much easier to set up on the shared host where I keep my project management tools.
Try Alfresco