Being Productive at GitHub

Slide 1

Slide 1 text

Being Productive @ GitHub A ! " # Mike McQuaid

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

Mike McQuaid OSS Economy Engineer

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

No content

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

(links at the end)

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

less noise

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

⌚ unwatch repositories https://github.com/watching

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

leave teams https://github.com/orgs/github/teams?query=members%3Ame

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

filter your (email) notifications https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#settings/filters

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

review requests: review (ASAP) direct mentions: read author: read + team mention: skim the rest: skim subjects

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

unblock your coworkers

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

⌛ review requested PRs (ASAP) https://github.com/pulls/review-requested

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

“request changes” on PRs sparingly

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

use deploy trains https://githubber.com/article/technology/dotcom/deploy/entrain

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

deploy deploy trains for others (bonus points if you live in non-America timezones) 1

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

focus

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

2 (ideally) one PR at a time https://github.com/pulls

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

3 brew cask install quitter https://marco.org/apps

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

clump your meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

decline some meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

…thanks! https://speakerdeck.com/mikemcquaid/being-productive-at-github https://github.blog/2017-07-18-managing-large-numbers-of-github-notifications/