Being Productive at GitHub

Tips and tricks for being (more) productive at GitHub.

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1. Being Productive @ GitHub A ! " # Mike McQuaid
2. Mike McQuaid OSS Economy Engineer
4. (links at the end)
5. less noise
6. ⌚ unwatch repositories https://github.com/watching
7. leave teams https://github.com/orgs/github/teams?query=members%3Ame
8. filter your (email) notifications https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#settings/filters
9. review requests: review (ASAP) direct mentions: read author: read + team mention: skim the rest: skim subjects
10. unblock your coworkers
11. ⌛ review requested PRs (ASAP) https://github.com/pulls/review-requested
12. “request changes” on PRs sparingly
13. use deploy trains https://githubber.com/article/technology/dotcom/deploy/entrain
14. deploy deploy trains for others (bonus points if you live in non-America timezones) 1
15. focus
16. 2 (ideally) one PR at a time https://github.com/pulls
17. 3 brew cask install quitter https://marco.org/apps
18. clump your meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r
19. decline some meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r
20. …thanks! https://speakerdeck.com/mikemcquaid/being-productive-at-github https://github.blog/2017-07-18-managing-large-numbers-of-github-notifications/