listentogithub

Watch and listen to Github in real time.

Here's the shit that we gotta do.

Basic functionality

• Make node server
• Connect to Github and get some sort of feed.
• Sync Github data with socket.io.
• Sounds with HowlerJS
• Visualization with D3
• Deploy to Heroku

Extensions

• Some shit with hardware. (Maybe lights that flash for every commit or some shit?

Notes on the viz

Visually, if we do things the way listenToWikipedia does, we've got several things to work with: color, size, and position.

One cool idea is to calculate those things deterministically by giving users and repositories a certain "score" for, like, the top few thousand of each.

But, the simplest possible way is to pick these all at random on the server to maintain consistency.

Some notes on Github Events.

There are a bunch of types of Github events. We don't care about all of them. Here's a list of the events and whether or not we care about them.

The events we care about: ForkEvent, IssuesEvent, PublicEvent, PullRequestEvent, PushEvent, ReleaseEvent, RepositoryEvent, WatchEvent

• CreateEvent: Represents a created repository, branch, or tag. I think we care, at least about repositories.

• ForkEvent: Yeah we care!!

• PublicEvent: Yeah we care!!

• WatchEvent: hmm. I think we do care.

• CommitCommentEvent: Comments on commits. We don't care.

• DeleteEvent: Deleted branch or tag. I don't think we care.

• DeploymentEvent: Are these even public? Nah we don't care.

• DeploymentStatusEvent: Same answer. I don't think we care.

• DownloadEvent: We don't care.

• FollowEvent: We don't care.

• ForkApplyEvent: These aren't even created anymore.

• GistEvent: These are not created anymore.

• GollumEvent: Wiki updates. we. don't. care.

• IssueCommentEvent: Maybe we care.

• IssuesEvent: Yeah we care!!

• MemberEvent: I think not.

• MembershipEvent: Not public I think.

• PageBuildEvent: We don't care.

• PullRequestEvent: I think we care.

• PullRequestReviewCommentEvent: I do not think we care.

• PushEvent: This is what we came here for.

• ReleaseEvent: Yeah we care!!

• RepositoryEvent: repo creation. Yes we care. Not sure we get it though.

• StatusEvent: I don't think we care.

• TeamAddEvent: I don't think we care.