Stepping Up Your GitHub Game

Women Who Code Front End

Cecelia Martinez

@ceceliacreates

Welcome 👋🏽

• Technical Account Manager @ Cypress.io ✅
• Lead Volunteer @ Women Who Code Front End 👩🏽‍💻
• Volunteer @ Out in Tech 🏳️‍🌈 (Women's Committee, Atlanta Chapter Co-Founder)
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• @ceceliacreates 🐦

Stepping Up Your GitHub Game: Why?

https://dev.to/ceceliacreates/the-beginner-github-guide-1pgd

octoverse.github.com

octoverse.github.com/#chart-public-oss-creation

• Issues - What problems are we solving?
• Releases - How do we package our software?
• Automations - How do we develop and deploy software in efficient, predictable ways?

Understand how software gets made

Stepping Up Your GitHub Game: Issues

GitHub Issues

• Collect user feedback, feature requests, and bug reports
• Prioritize work, track progress, and communicate updates

Anatomy of an Issue

• Title - Describes the issue
• Content - Details of the issue, typically follows template
• Timeline - Shows all historical comments and updates
• Assignees - Developers assigned to work on an issue
• Labels - Categories or tags that describe the issue
• Projects - Any projects linked to the issue
• Milestones - Any milestones linked to the issue
• Linked pull requests - Automatically link a PR by adding "closes #issueNumber" to the body of the PR
• Notifications - Users can subscribe to receive updates
• Participants - Any user that has commented or contributed

GitHub Issues

Issue Templates

• Help to standardize bug reports and feature requests
• Ensure all needed information is included

Issue Templates

• Help to standardize bug reports and feature requests
• Ensure all needed information is included

Issue Labels

• Designate issues to planned features, packages, or known issues, or use to describe status and prioritization

Stepping Up Your GitHub Game: Releases

GitHub Releases

• Use releases to package and version your software
• Include release notes and links to binary files
• Based on Git tags - designate a point in time in the history of your code repository

GitHub Releases

• Create a release from an existing tag OR
• Create a new release and add tag

Stepping Up Your GitHub Game: Automations

GitHub Actions

• Automate tasks related to your repository
• Build complex workflows or add single actions
• Triggered by events like a push to a branch or scheduled

GitHub Actions

• Can manage deployments, branch updates, labels, issues, and even integrate with third parties

GitHub Actions

• Use pre-built GitHub Actions, modify, or create your own

Stepping Up Your GitHub Game: Practice

GitHub Practice

• Issues
  • Use issues to track work on your own projects
  • Create helpful issues in open-source projects 
  • Link your pull requests to issues to automatically close
  • Create an issue template for your own project

GitHub Practice

• Releases
  • Read changelogs for open-source tools and understand how they version and release
  • Release versions of your own projects to understand the differences between MAJOR, MINOR, and PATCH

GitHub Practice

• Automations
  • Set up workflow actions for your own projects
  • Modify an existing GitHub Action