Setup instructions for a variant Github App

Hi, we’ve forked and made a small tweak to the workflow to match the Public Lab process, where we don’t do an invitation and assignment before asking for a PR – we try to just encourage people to submit a PR as early as possible to start a discussion about the contribution.

We love your setup and your bot, we just have a different checklist so we’d like to register a “variant” app based on our fork: https://github.com/publiclab/first-timers-bot/blob/master/instructions.md

I’m not sure what to use as the Webhook URL or Webhook secret when creating a new GitHub app at https://github.com/organizations/publiclab/settings/apps/new. Can you advise? Thank you for this wonderful project!

[jywarren]

Hi, @gr2m and @agonzalez0515 – also, we’re starting to think about a mini-survey to assess our outreach efforts. If you’ve done anything like this, or are interested in it, we’d love to chat!

https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/10-25-2017/help-with-a-standard-mini-evaluation-for-assessing-software-outreach-efforts

[jywarren]

Hi, very cool to hear of this, and we’re doing a lot of experimentation ourselves on newcomer engagement.

Ah!!! A markdown file to the .github directory of MY project? That makes a LOT of sense and is really cool. Do you think I could file a PR to amend the docs to make that extra clear? I missed it first time around.