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TLDR

Workshop submission archive where seven participants built shell scripts that turn GitHub repo activity into a readable timeline.

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    What it does
      Reads repo activity
      Builds readable timeline
      Combines commits PRs issues
    Tech stack
      Shell
    Use cases
      Learning exercise
      Compare approaches
      Study a sample repo
    Audience
      Workshop participants
      Students

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Compare seven different approaches to summarizing GitHub repo activity

USE CASE 2

See how combining commits, pull requests, and issues reveals patterns commits alone miss

USE CASE 3

Study a sample script applied to a target repository for reference

What is it built with?

Shell

How does it compare?

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Stars202020
LanguageShellShellShell
Setup difficultymoderatemoderateeasy
Complexity2/52/52/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

README is primarily in Thai, each submission is a standalone shell script with its own sample output.

In plain English

This repository is the submission archive for Workshop 03 from a Thai programming group called Oracle School. The assignment was to build a shell skill that reads a GitHub repository's activity, including commits, pull requests, and issues, and turns that data into a readable timeline that a non-developer can understand within 30 seconds. Seven participants submitted their work. Each submission lives in its own folder and includes a runnable shell script, a sample output file showing the tool applied to a target repository called maw-js, and a short PDF book written alongside the code. The workshop collected all submissions into an index showing each participant's name, their skill's name, and the approach they took. Approaches varied: one looked at code that was added and then deleted as a signal of wasted motion rather than real progress, another built a unified day-by-day table of all activity types, and another separated human contributors from bots. The workshop materials illustrate a specific insight the participants were supposed to discover: combining commits, pull requests, and issues onto a single time axis reveals things that looking at commits alone does not. In the sample data, one day showed 229 commits, but it was only when pull requests and issues were included that it became clear that was a sprint day when the whole team finished work together. The README is written primarily in Thai. The repository also includes two reference skills used during the workshop, one for generating PDF books and one for Thai language editing. This is a learning exercise repository, not a general-purpose tool.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Explain how combining commits, pull requests, and issues onto one timeline reveals sprint days that commit history alone would miss
Prompt 2
Help me write a shell script that summarizes a GitHub repo's recent activity in plain language
Prompt 3
Show me how to separate human contributors from bots when analyzing repo activity
Prompt 4
Walk me through building a day-by-day activity table from GitHub commits, PRs, and issues

Frequently asked questions

What is workshop-03-upstream-digest?

Workshop submission archive where seven participants built shell scripts that turn GitHub repo activity into a readable timeline.

What language is workshop-03-upstream-digest written in?

Mainly Shell. The stack also includes Shell.

How hard is workshop-03-upstream-digest to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is workshop-03-upstream-digest for?

Mainly developer.

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