Setting Up Example Repositories

The files/ directory of the source repository for this lesson includes a script, generate_example_repositories.py, which can be used to automate the setup of example repositories for use in the skill-up.

For each participant registered for the skill-up, the script will create a repository (owned by the skill-up host) with:

• GitHub Pages enabled
• the participant invited to join the repo as a collaborator
• three open issues
• three open pull requests

The script takes ~2 minutes to run on the author’s system.

To run the script, you will need:

1. Python >= 3.6 and Git
2. The gh executable installed on your system (https://cli.github.com/), with your user account authenticated
3. A file of participants’ usernames
4. The folder of supporting-files included alongside the script inside files/

When you have all of these things, you can run the script with

BASH

python maintainer-skill-up-setup.py date-of-skill-up host-username usernames-file

where

• date-of-skill-up = the date that the skill-up will take place, in YYYY-MM-DD format
• host-username = the GitHub username/handle of the session host
• usernames-file = path to a file of GitHub usernames to create repositories for. This on is optional, and the script will look for a file called ./github_usernames.txt by default.

Callout

Setting up an example repository for the host to use

To make your experience as similar as possible to the participants’, I recommend creating a secondary GitHub account and generating an example repository for that account to use.

You can then run the skill-up session while logged into that account, to ensure that what displays on your screen matches the experience of the other participants.