GitHub Notifications Bot

GitHub Notifications Bot插件简介

GitHub Notifications Bot插件描述

One of the issues while developing software using GitHub is not being notified  missing notifications about updates in the reposity. Due to the complexities of modern agile software development, developers have to manage multiple tools parallelly. This may cause them to miss imptant notifications that are relevant to them  the overall development of the project.

Missing notifications can lead to problems that slow down the development process  hamper production software quality. Irregular git pulls may lead to merge conflicts which can be difficult to resolve. These conflicts can sometimes slow down development process as resolving them is tedious  time consuming. Also, in a project it is imptant to be immediately notified about issues being created as sometimes these issues might be security/scalability vulnerability bugs. Thus, making it imptant to resolve them promptly. In addition to these, it is also imptant to know the tasks being completed while wking parallely on a project so that the future tasks can be planned accdingly.

The GitHub Notification bot will be an extension to Google Chrome, which is the most popular web browser. This extension will be linked to a GitHub account  will provide regular updates f it. The notification bot will interact with GitHub APIs every 30 seconds  will display unread notifications. The bot will help all the collabats to stay tuned with the changes made to their reposities. This will improve the quality of software  speed up the process of development by timely resolution of merge conflicts  by apt announcement of issues.

To interact with the bot, the user first needs to install  add the extension to the web browser. The user then needs to provide "Personal Access Token" created from GitHub Account only f the first time. In action, the bot will populate notifications to the user as a list in a drop down when the user clicks the extension icon. The messagetitle in the dropdown will be a hyperlink to the notification. The notification will include the details regarding any commits, pull requests  issues related to those reposities.
                                

GitHub Notifications Bot插件离线安装方法

1.首先用户点击谷歌浏览器右上角的自定义及控制按钮，在下拉框中选择设置。

2.在打开的谷歌浏览器的扩展管理器最左侧选择扩展程序或直接输入：chrome://extensions/

3.找到自己已经下载好的Chrome离线安装文件xxx.crx，然后将其从资源管理器中拖动到Chrome的扩展管理界面中，这时候用户会发现在扩展管理器的中央部分中会多出一个”拖动以安装“的插件按钮。

4.下载 GitHub Notifications BotChrome插件v5.3版本到本地。

5.勾选开发者模式，点击加载已解压的扩展程序，将文件夹选择即可安装插件。

注意：最新版本的chrome浏览器直接拖放安装时会出现“程序包无效CRX-HEADER-INVALID”的报错信息，参照这篇文章即可解决