Features To Make GitHub An Awesome Platform

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by tav • 16 years ago

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tav2• 16 years ago

I registerd gitapps.com a year ago — it's now expiring, but I'd be happy to donate it (renew it and transfer it) if anyone comes up with a really cool use for it...

SlyShy2• 16 years ago

Hm. I have something like this already setup privately. It's just a Node.js app that routes post requests to the private-access git address. I suppose I should clean it up and release it.

steveklabnik2• 16 years ago

I would love to do this. Maybe not these features exactly, but eventually, with Hackety Hack, I'd like to make the website be a "github lite." Github without git. All the social stuff, none of the complicated git stuff. Eventually, offer a path to migrate programs to a real github account proper. This is still a bit far off... but an API would make it much easier.

jrockway• 16 years ago

Why does github have to do this? You can do it yourself.

steveklabnik2• 16 years ago

And I probably will. It's just always easier to make a few API calls than to re-implement something in its entirety.

defunkt• 16 years ago

I want to do all of this stuff. Great post.

technoweenie• 16 years ago

I've been wanting OAuth for stuff like http://calendaraboutnothing.com/. There's no way we should advocate entering GitHub passwords or API tokens into a 3rd party web apps.

tav2• 16 years ago

OAuth would be ideal. I made the feature request minimal to make it more acceptable =)

boucher• 16 years ago

Agreed! I want to build our entire community site around Github, but I don't want people to provide their usernames/passwords, and I'd prefer a way to specify whether or not they're providing access to SSH keys, which I don't need.

SlyShy2• 16 years ago

This is awesome to hear.

leif• 16 years ago

I feel like upvoting this doesn't properly convey the notion "I want to do all of this stuff too."

JimBastard• 16 years ago

http://hook.io actually will be solving a lot of these issues.....on a larger scale

tophat02• 16 years ago

I wonder if there's any more "social" that could be put into GitHub's already "social" platform. For example: I always thought it would be nice to have a forum system (separate from the issue tracker) so that each repository could have a discussion forum.

I guess in general what I'm saying is it'd be nice to have some facebook- or forum-like ways for developers to chat amongst each other (either in the context of a repository or not).

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