GitHub Polls

GitHub Polls

Polls for GitHub issues and readme

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Keith Horwood
This is awesome! TJ is hands-down one of the most prolific and talented developer product creators on the planet. Always a joy to see what he builds. TJ - what inspired GitHub Polls?
TJ Holowaychuk
@keithwhor thanks man! I was just looking for a better way to get organized feedback without having to tally up dozens of comments. The more I've been "abusing" SVG in markdown the more powerful I realize it can actually be, fun little project!
Ben Tossell
Reaaaaaally simple Poll generator for GitHub These polls work by pasting individual markdown SVG images into your issue, each wrapped with a link that tracks a vote. A single vote per IP is allowed for a given poll, which are stored in DynamoDB.
Vinay Hiremath
Pretty unique way to hack around SVGs on GitHub. Not sure what I would use this for as of now, but I really want to. You been using this for anything specifically TJ?
Elvis Wolcott
@vhmth I imagine uses like someone proposes a feature and then you can do a poll to see if it is worth adding
Vinay Hiremath
@randomrumblegen I suppose I can see that, but feature proposals probably happen closest to your transactional conversation platform (i.e. Slack, Hipchat, Email, etc.). I guess for some teams this would be on GH, but I don't think that would be the case for most. I'm thinking of using this to run polls on the effectiveness of our Wiki pages. A simple "Was this page helpful? Yes or no"
Alexander Pushkov
@randomrumblegen @vhmth How about open source projects? At least those that don't use gitter / slack etc. Most of the discussion is going on in the Issues section for them I guess.
TJ Holowaychuk
@vhmth it's great for getting a nice overview of what features or examples people might want first, for example https://github.com/apex/up/issue.... This way you don't have a massive stream of responses to count haha.