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feat: create GitHub PR flywheel siphon for learning#9

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This PR creates a GitHub PR flywheel siphon that extracts learning material from any GitHub repository.

Key Features

  • Monitors any GitHub repository for PR activity
  • Creates detailed GitHub issues with complete PR data (diff, comments, metadata)
  • Includes a learning module template in each issue
  • Configurable through a simple text file

Core Assumptions

  1. GitHub Platform: Uses GitHub's PR system
  2. PR Quality: PRs contain meaningful descriptions for learning context
  3. Public Access: Repository is accessible with standard permissions

How It Works

The system creates a flywheel effect:

  • PR activity in any repository → Learning material in this repo
  • Learning material → Improved understanding
  • Improved understanding → Better PRs
  • Better PRs → Better learning material

This follows Unix philosophy principles: do one thing well, write programs to work together, and store data in flat text files.

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Important clarification about this system's flexibility:

While initially conceived for monitoring a dotfiles repository, this implementation is actually repository-agnostic and can be used with any GitHub repository you want to learn from.

What the system actually assumes:

  1. The target is a GitHub repository using pull requests
  2. PRs contain meaningful descriptions (for learning context)
  3. The repository is public or accessible with the provided token

What it does NOT assume:

  • The repository doesn't need to contain dotfiles specifically
  • The content type doesn't matter - could be any codebase you want to learn from
  • No assumptions about specific file structures or naming conventions

This makes the system much more powerful as a learning tool. You could point it at:

  • Open source projects with interesting patterns
  • Your own repositories of various types
  • Any GitHub repo with well-documented PRs that you want to learn from

The name 'dotfiles' in the workflow is just an artifact of the initial use case, but the implementation itself is a general-purpose PR data collector for learning from any GitHub repository.

@atxtechbro atxtechbro force-pushed the feature/dotfiles-issue-generator branch from 0363213 to 1dcb691 Compare April 8, 2025 19:53
@atxtechbro atxtechbro changed the title feat: add dotfiles PR issue generator system feat: create GitHub PR flywheel siphon for learning Apr 8, 2025
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