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We used to use GitHub's tokens, but they seemed to have withdrawn them.

Checking their docs now, though, it seems you can create "personal access tokens" via https://github.com/settings/tokens/new which can be used in basic HTTP auth in place of a username and password: https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens

So, if that still works, we should change the documentation to suggest creating a token (and listing the minimum access requirements - at a cursory glance it would appear the minimum we require is:

repo, public_repo, repo:status, read:repo_hook, write:repo_hook

Looks like this should be easier than I thought - it provides a way to avoid dealing with the horrible hell-spawned clusterfuck that is OAuth, which is kinda nasty for web apps and next to useless for non-webapps.

It would be nice to be able to refer to a project specifically when referencing an issue/commit/pull, for example:

Issue 42 @ author/repo
42abe35d5 @ author/repo

(With whitespace around the @ optional of course)

It would be nice to be able to support github service hooks. I have written this which we have been using for a while:

https://gist.github.com/1296623

If you'd be interested in getting something like this into your tree, that would be awesome. Currently we use it to show commit updates on all of our projects, and its great because its pretty instantaneous. I know you have the same features planned for Announce, so maybe something like this could be integrated into Announce.pm with an option to use postbacks, or poll.

I'm interested in implementing this, I was just wondering if you had any thoughts/preferences on how this should be done so that it could potentially be merged in here. Thanks.