On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Hedge Hog <hedgehogshia...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Github has an API available as a starting point. If I entered my > users name and API key Gitorious could: > Collate and present (respecting rate limits): > - Convenience links to my Github projects (see badges examples below) > - Summary of activity on my Github projects. > - Link/info to/about the Gitorious users who can be 'matched' to my > Github project's contributors listing > I really love Github, and I agree that it would be very useful to have some kind of aggregation of activities by the same person between the two services (Gitorious and Github). In fact, why exclude Bitbucket, Google Code and Launchpad in there too, perhaps even Sourceforge? I don't think the right approach is to tie Gitorious directly to Github; rather each service should expose its data through an API, maybe even a standardized/generalized API, as you suggest below. Gitorious does expose quite a lot of data in JSON/XML format; as rule of thumb you could try appending .json or .xml to a URL to see what is exposed. If you need something that isn't exposed you could either implement it and create a merge request, or post it to the mailing list - in which case I'm sure someone will help. Unless there is a real issue with its design, it seems that v2 of the > Github API is a good starting set of behaviors to replicate. > Keeping the API and returned datat structures the same eliminates one > more thing to learn. > Agreed, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. In fact, our web hooks feature (http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/WebHooks) is modeled around Github's JSON representation with some differences. The most important difference is that Github doesn't have a notion of project (I know they call repositories projects). For our web hooks we've tried to be pragmatic about this; the obvious thing to do would be to represent the relationship as project->repository->commits or similar, but rather we have added the project information at the same level as the repository information. I think, however, that the API topic is slightly different from the topic of Gitorious-Gitorious federation? Cheers, - Marius -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
