convore.json/groups/github/ever-sent-a-pull-request-but-been-completely-ignored/messages.json

[{"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119878.3127141, "message": "next weekend :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 564303}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119130.823488, "message": "It shows mean and standard deviation for various sets of pull requests, showing you how likely a repo is to be accepting contributions.", "group_id": 591, "id": 563929}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302142120.231421, "user_id": 218}, {"date_created": 1302332041.823468, "user_id": 12202}, {"date_created": 1303379593.580195, "user_id": 21819}], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119108.4562831, "message": "I wrote a little weekend project to help: http://www.bigpuller.com", "group_id": 591, "id": 563914}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119819.742239, "message": "This is very cool. However, it doesn't work with long repo names :) http://kreitz.co/2A0l3S3Q0z1w0R3U0Q2N", "group_id": 591, "id": 564280}, {"user_id": 7639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119521.6918211, "message": "love that sign in button, did you make it?", "group_id": 591, "id": 564112}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303906813.2495861, "user_id": 942}], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119583.4297609, "message": "sort of, I used https://github.com/necolas/css3-github-buttons for all of the buttons, but the big signup one also has an image i whipped up in photoshop on top of it", "group_id": 591, "id": 564156}, {"user_id": 7639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119670.708277, "message": "impressive :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 564204}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302120077.508894, "message": "For those interested, this is written with (coffeescript-ified) node.js (express) and uses: mongoose, node-github, underscore, jade, seq and oauth for github authentication, it was really fun to write. I'll put the source up on github sometime, too.", "group_id": 591, "id": 564383}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302120106.2071841, "message": "thanks @pengwynn", "group_id": 591, "id": 564395}, {"user_id": 7639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119720.2790649, "message": "thank you for the link anyways", "group_id": 591, "id": 564226}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302119867.177062, "message": "heh, so true (there are other spots where that happens too)", "group_id": 591, "id": 564296}, {"user_id": 8716, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302120055.66208, "message": "@rfunduk Nice job!", "group_id": 591, "id": 564375}, {"user_id": 9896, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302127758.9719729, "message": "wouldbe cool to have a little helptext explaining the meaning of those numbers to less math-y guys like me. maybe also a count of the contributors.", "group_id": 591, "id": 565831}, {"user_id": 9896, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302162676.3744471, "message": "or to ask it more concrete: are we doing well? http://www.bigpuller.com/repo/divio/django-cms", "group_id": 591, "id": 573258}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302183729.907691, "message": "Hey @ojiidotch, first, I'd say you're doing amazingly well! I definitely think more explanation is needed. I'm not even always sure how to read the numbers myself :P - Basically if 'completed' and 'active' are both < 30 days I'd say that's pretty good. The mean is the average time to 'close' a pull request (not necessarily actually pull it, but 'handle it'). The deviation is how much, generally, the time-to-close deviates from that mean. This was just a quick i-want-to-write-something-using-node.js weekend project and I don't really have much time to work on it (have my own startup and a day job :)). However, I do plan to open source the code (and aim for low numbers in bigpuller if anyone contributes :)), so I'll post here when that, or any other updates, happen.", "group_id": 591, "id": 575090}, {"user_id": 25530, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302423578.3789229, "message": "On the other hand, I've got pull requests accepted after months. Now I've learned that most often, when a pull request is not accepted, the author did not receive a notification for it. So, send them an email after a few days (unless it's rails of course)", "group_id": 591, "id": 608470}, {"user_id": 28328, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302633887.1639841, "message": "Some times as developer you don't have time to test pull requests", "group_id": 591, "id": 647478}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302656280.0860729, "user_id": 2190}, {"date_created": 1302701035.4235899, "user_id": 960}, {"date_created": 1303632884.467876, "user_id": 16058}], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302634007.6323991, "message": "All good points, but it still stands that as a contributor I want to know how likely my PR is to be considered at all. If you don't have time to test/merge them, I need to know that and can spend my time working on your code (or not) accordingly.", "group_id": 591, "id": 647508}, {"user_id": 18417, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302676843.056649, "message": "@rfunduk if you look at the network graphs you can get a decent idea of how often they pull in patches from other forks. Assuming there are other actively developed forks.", "group_id": 591, "id": 660491}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302726789.915765, "message": "Got a 500 Internal Server Error. Let me know when it's working again, please, so I can try it. Thanks!", "group_id": 591, "id": 671333}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302819658.0794339, "user_id": 12202}], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302726413.2522061, "message": "@dryan, how often, true. But what about a project that merges a change every day, but leaves 100 pull requests stagnating? This is about an overall feeling of responsiveness and not about nitpicking if they accept stuff or not.", "group_id": 591, "id": 671255}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302728306.751513, "message": "@bat: Works for me... Can you be more specific where you hit a 500?", "group_id": 591, "id": 671757}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302734891.53334, "message": "it gave me one twice when I clicked on the link and tried to reload", "group_id": 591, "id": 673272}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302735019.648349, "message": "http://www.bigpuller.com/repo/janl/mustache.js", "group_id": 591, "id": 673292}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302735009.132823, "message": "ok works now", "group_id": 591, "id": 673289}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1302796968.388767, "message": "Odd. Well, I'm not doing much error handling here :), it's possible github's api was down (or similar).", "group_id": 591, "id": 686718}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303336032.471349, "message": "If anyone's interested in this I put the code up on GitHub: https://github.com/rfunduk/bigpuller", "group_id": 591, "id": 761924}, {"user_id": 24495, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303336065.4519429, "message": "@rfunduk Need a README. :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 761931}, {"user_id": 29456, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303341202.013031, "message": "Rolled one 6-sided die: 4", "group_id": 591, "id": 762667}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303392638.7319579, "message": "@mrjbq7, you're too quick, check again :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 769996}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303526326.2059741, "message": "tl;dr: I submitted a pull request and the maintainer rewrote my code and committed it himself. Is that normal?", "group_id": 591, "id": 786996}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303526292.5537219, "message": "I've got a question about pull request ettiquete. Submitted a request to https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs this morning, almost instantly, one of the maintainers pushed a commit that attempted to solve the problem but didn't do so completely, after clarification, pushed another. Is there any specific reason my commit wasn't applied even though it did all the things the implementer's did? Is that a standard practice for pull requests? Not horribly fussed because fixed software is still fixed. But given that one's GitHub account is a great thing to show potential employers that you contribute to software, having your credit denied frequently could add up to hurt you. Just wondering if I did something wrong.", "group_id": 591, "id": 786995}, {"user_id": 28370, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303548866.670095, "message": "I think it's more normal for the person to weither comment and get you to fix your code before it's pulled in, or pull and then followup with a commit that fixes the stuff... but then he may have actually been working on it at the same time you sent the request.", "group_id": 591, "id": 788196}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303570302.7673609, "message": "@tekkub it's possible that he was. I hadn't written test cases for the code yet (though I didn't cause any existing tests to fail), but only because I was on the train on the way to work when I fixed it.", "group_id": 591, "id": 789372}, {"user_id": 2107, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303583539.3517301, "message": "IMO if you are put off by your someone not accepting your pull request, you are doing it wrong.  The point isn't who gets credit for making a change/fixing a bug, but that the project moves forward through contributions, be they from the maintainer or from the community at large.  If you didn't supply tests, all the more reason to borrow the intent of the commit but reimplement themselves.  That being said, maintainers need to foster a community around their projects and part of that should be accepting contributions from others and keeping an openness to their projects.", "group_id": 591, "id": 790501}, {"user_id": 28370, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303658052.1195049, "user_id": 8391}, {"date_created": 1303670214.2600601, "user_id": 8327}], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303630056.0751469, "message": "Agreed, if you get hung up on receiving credit that's kinda crummy of you... but on the flip side when people go out of their way to give you a fix, you should go out of your way to acknowledge it, even if you don't use the code.", "group_id": 591, "id": 793366}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303633389.789932, "message": "@myfreeweb gotcha, hadn't realized you meant in Node.js (I'm a frontend newb)", "group_id": 591, "id": 793510}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303632641.7022109, "message": "@anno @tekkub not overly concerned with the crediting, aside from getting my OS Contributor badge of course, just noting that github is becoming a credential step among some of the more attractive companies to work for and it'd be nice to have some good stats. The primary reason I was asking was that I am getting ready to put a few projects on GitHub which are actually of interest and I've never been on the recieving end of a pull request and was curious if that was a common/valid workflow. I appreciate the comments and feedback.", "group_id": 591, "id": 793487}, {"user_id": 28396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303633155.251091, "message": "@myfreeweb but if you do that, you'll have to rerun the coffee compiler on every new page load. Whereas by precompining your coffeescript, you gain all the benefits without the frontend performance hit.", "group_id": 591, "id": 793499}, {"user_id": 16058, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303633050.0026569, "message": "CoffeeScript: doing it wrong. Compile it with a ruby script? WTF? Just require('coffee-script') in server.js and you can require coffee files", "group_id": 591, "id": 793493}, {"user_id": 16058, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303633263.042279, "message": "@nuclearsandwich, the compiler will run only on app restart. And it's fast.", "group_id": 591, "id": 793502}, {"user_id": 28370, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303720462.425971, "message": "@nuclearsandwich I say take 'em when you can, less work is always nice.  If you receive a PR for something you've already fixed, just reply back and say so.  People just want to know they aren't being ignored or used for free code without credit.", "group_id": 591, "id": 801152}, {"user_id": 19952, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303829069.5206299, "message": "@tekkub I ran into that a while ago, and it turns out the project owner just didn't know how to commit with an `--author`. Once someone pointed it out to him, he revised his commits to include me as the author (him as the committer) and both of us were happy :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 815151}, {"user_id": 28370, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17652, "date_created": 1303860523.705791, "message": "@bobthecow back when I did patches (won't touch them now, send a PR!)... I usually didn't screw with getting the author field set.  Instead I just added a little \"thanks soandso\" at the end of the commit message.", "group_id": 591, "id": 819965}]