John, talking of visualizing pull requests to modules, we could setup a hook to your site from the github KiCad org if you want:
https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ Miguel Ángel Ajo On Thursday, 8 de January de 2015 at 08:33, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote: > Nice John, very interesting job, It could be very cool if you could visualize > > pull requests, etc.. > > Very good point about the unregistered API limit. > > The unregistered API limit is 60 req/hour. That should be enough > for a normal user (used for listing the repos) If that’s found to be > exceeded we could cache that response into downloads.kicad-pcb.org > (http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org) > with a cron script + OAuth key if necessary. > > > Miguel Ángel Ajo > > > On Thursday, 8 de January de 2015 at 01:19, John Beard wrote: > > > On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 23:38 +0100, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote: > > Hi Jean Pierre, just an idea for your wizard work: > > > > > > https://api.github.com/orgs/KiCad/repos > > > > > > > > > You could save the need to work with the HTML viewer and pagination > > > problems > > > using the above API endpoint, all the KiCad project repositories are > > > listed into it > > > in json format. > > > > > > > > > The GitHub API is pretty comprehensive, as I found when writing my web > > footprint viewer [1]. Full GH API access would allow us to be rather > > more flexible with what we can do, for example: > > > > * Only load footprints one at a time, rather than having to download > > and unzip the whole repo (note that the transfer can still be > > compressed!) > > * View and use footprint history (although this can't easily be done > > in the case that a footprint has moved pretty repo, e.g. from > > Sockets.pretty to Sockets_Samtec.pretty) > > * See changes made in all repos (currently quite hard to do, as you > > have dozens of separate repos to consider) > > * Contribute new footprints back to the GH repo in the form of a pull > > request, without leaving KiCad. > > > > Similar use could be made of any Git repo locally too (but not the pull > > request aspect). Additionally, any remote git repo could also be cloned > > and used from within KiCad. This does not require the GH API, just a Git > > library, of which there are many (or shell out, even, bleh!) > > > > just querying the URL Miguel provided would only count as a single API > > access, and would not need an API token, unless the user kept on > > refreshing the list somehow! But you would still get a complete list of > > repos. > > > > However, the API limits are pretty low when you don't have an API token. > > The web viewer uses a private clientId and secret and then the user gets > > their own API token via OAuth. This does require that the user has a > > Github account. > > > > We wouldn't be able to distribute the client secret for a KiCad GitHub > > interface (it could be stolen and used fraudulently for other purposes). > > We could: > > > > * Make the user get their own access token (fairly easy via GitHub's > > settings page > > * Have an OAuth server somewhere which can arbitrate this process > > (user still needs to log into GitHub via Kicad to get the access token, > > however. > > > > This would also allow to dispense with the webviewer WX requirement, > > which adds another step to the arduous KiCad build process. > > > > [1] http://libree.org/tool/kicad_viewer > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > (mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net) > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > (mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net) > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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