I want to do all of this stuff. Great post.

I've been wanting OAuth for stuff like http://calendaraboutnothing.com/. There's no way we should advocate entering GitHub passwords or API tokens into a 3rd party web apps.

Agreed! I want to build our entire community site around Github, but I don't want people to provide their usernames/passwords, and I'd prefer a way to specify whether or not they're providing access to SSH keys, which I don't need.

OAuth would be ideal. I made the feature request minimal to make it more acceptable =)

This is awesome to hear.

I feel like upvoting this doesn't properly convey the notion "I want to do all of this stuff too."

Hm. I have something like this already setup privately. It's just a Node.js app that routes post requests to the private-access git address. I suppose I should clean it up and release it.

I would love to do this. Maybe not these features exactly, but eventually, with Hackety Hack, I'd like to make the website be a "github lite." Github without git. All the social stuff, none of the complicated git stuff. Eventually, offer a path to migrate programs to a real github account proper. This is still a bit far off... but an API would make it much easier.

Why does github have to do this? You can do it yourself.

And I probably will. It's just always easier to make a few API calls than to re-implement something in its entirety.

I registerd gitapps.com a year ago — it's now expiring, but I'd be happy to donate it (renew it and transfer it) if anyone comes up with a really cool use for it...

I wonder if there's any more "social" that could be put into GitHub's already "social" platform. For example: I always thought it would be nice to have a forum system (separate from the issue tracker) so that each repository could have a discussion forum.

I guess in general what I'm saying is it'd be nice to have some facebook- or forum-like ways for developers to chat amongst each other (either in the context of a repository or not).

http://hook.io actually will be solving a lot of these issues.....on a larger scale