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Re: GitHub Report Card

#4
post #2

It wants the ability to WRITE to my public AND private repos & create issues. no. just no.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as read-only access to GitHub repos. Read/write access is the only scope that GitHub currently grants: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes. If you've given a third-party app access to your repos in the past (CircleCI, Auth0, TravisCI, Heroku, etc.), that access has been read/write.

Re: GitHub Report Card

#7
post #2

It wants the ability to WRITE to my public AND private repos & create issues. no. just no.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as read-only access to GitHub repos. Read/write access is the only scope that GitHub currently grants: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes . If you've given a third-party app access to your repos in the past (CircleCI, Auth0, TravisCI, Heroku, etc.), that access has been read/write.

Shouldn't have used OAuth then.

Re: GitHub Report Card

#8
post #5

Please include a checkbox to exclude private repos. I have a lot of private work that I just can't let anyone see. Thank you!

Important note: these reports are accessible only by you, the user. They are not publicly available.

Re: GitHub Report Card

#9
I'm a Technical Product Manager at GitHub. I just took a look at this (pretty cool, maybe we should have deeper user metrics...). I saw a couple of comments about the 'write access' so I just figured I'd chime in and point out that it's a required scope to get all of the private contrib info out of the API. I definitely encourage people to be mindful of what access they grant, but for what it's worth I did it :)

Re: GitHub Report Card

#10
There's no preamble describing why this report is a thing, nor what will be included. I'm waiting on mine to be generated, but the landing page leaves much to be desired.
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