using GitHub's API

[Ken Dreyer]

Would there be any problems with copying / reimplementing GitHub's API
in Gitorious?

There are lots of client libraries for various languages that use
GitHub's V3 API, and it would be neat if we could "drop in" Gitorious
as the backend.

- Ken

[Marius Mårnes Mathiesen]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdr...@ktdreyer.com> wrote:

Would there be any problems with copying / reimplementing GitHub's API
in Gitorious?

Now that the US courts have decided that APIs are not copyrightable (Oracle vs Google) this should be smooth sailing :-)

 

There are lots of client libraries for various languages that use
GitHub's V3 API, and it would be neat if we could "drop in" Gitorious
as the backend.

I think this sounds like a great idea! A natural starting point would perhaps be to set up Gitorious to act as an oauth provider? I looked into this briefly some time ago, but just got depressed at the state of Ruby oauth servers at the time. It's probably a lot better these days?

Cheers,

- Marius