Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation
Problem
Review of software, code (also data and other artifacts) requires lots of tedious steps
Review
Acceptance
Submission
Plenty of tedious, sometimes repetitive tasks here.
Review
Acceptance
Submission
Ignores conversations between humans
Jump in when called
Ignores conversations between humans
Jump in when called
Perform <actions> return <output>
Ignores conversations between humans
Jump in when called
Generalize this to any action
Context switching for busy reviewers
@bot <pattern>
Follow a series of steps that involve other tools. Gather results
Respond with output
Heroku
Heroku
GitHub
Editorial
Review
Adding/removing reviewers
Generating checklists
Generating metadata
Updating databases
Run the submission artifacts (software) through external tools, then return actionable diagnostics
Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation