GitHub integration

Jan 12, 2016, 11:14 pm
#1
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I've been posting about this in the continuation thread but I think it deserves its own thread now

Releases are automatically pulled from GitHub and displayed on the "Downloads" section:
https://attnam.com/projects
with direct links to the binaries and source code. (It'll show the 5 most recent releases and is cached once an hour)

Issues are automatically pulled from GitHub and displayed on this new page:
https://attnam.com/issues
with a button to create a new issue on GitHub

Finally, on your edit profile page, you can connect your GitHub account.

Why? Well, mostly so that we know who is who on GitHub since a lot of the usernames are different.

With that info I'll be able to associate commits, releases, issues, etc. with a user on this site.

That'll be cool for a lot of reasons... it can automatically add people to the "Developers" group if they contribute, for example. We can give better recognition to the ones who are contributing a lot of work.

Any other ideas?
Jan 13, 2016, 3:55 pm
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Awesome additions cap! Is it possible for you to add stats on the number of downloads? I know there's a way to do this via the github API only I haven't tried this successfully.
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Jan 13, 2016, 9:40 pm
#3
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Ah, good call. I didn't realize that was available in the API.

I added it (it's only available for the binaries, not the source)
Jan 14, 2016, 1:35 am
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Amazing, people actually download! And already 111 downloads since 2 weeks!
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Jan 14, 2016, 1:13 pm
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Yeah I was surprised at the numbers!
Jan 18, 2016, 6:31 am
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Awesome work!
Apr 14, 2016, 6:20 am
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I noticed that the GitHub repository has the possibility of adding a wiki page. I wonder if we could make the wiki page on GitHub simply redirect to the Attnam.com wiki page?
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Apr 14, 2016, 4:17 pm
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Good call. I added a link to the wiki here.

It might be good to either add a Development section, or to keep the Development wiki on GitHub, while the game play wiki is hosted here.
Apr 14, 2016, 5:31 pm
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Maybe the dev wiki could be hosted on the GitHub page, and the two wikis can link to each other. It'd be cooler if there was one integrated wiki somehow.
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