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bots like these seem to be a natural way to work around github's limitations. realistically, they won't be able to support everyone's use case, but they can provide a platform where lots of different tools can be integrated together.

unfortunately, bots like these are very annoying to write right now. at least one reason is that there is no github event for editing comments. if you try to use webhook events to mirror comments made in github to another code review tool, you will quickly drift out of sync if those comments are edited in github. instead, you have to implement polling, which comes with it's own set of challenges.

also, in general, the event formats are pretty inconsistent. as a random example, in the push event the repo owner only includes name and email, while in the commit comment event the repo owner includes all sorts of information about stars, followers, etc... there are inconsistencies like that all over the place, which means you might need to implement additional API requests for some events and not others.

on a somewhat related note, i've seen a lot of speculation in the open-source community that the reason open-source is getting so little attention from Github is that they're focusing on enterprise customers. i can say that as a somewhat-large enterprise customer, i have yet to get a single issue addressed. examples like above (add a comment-edited and PR-edited event) have been in the ask 6 months or more.




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