On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Cyb3rNet <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, I get the error when I try to obtain the request through XML. But
> it works though with JSON and YAML.
>
> * Defective
> ** XML: http://gist.github.com/327394
> * OK
> ** JSON: http://gist.github.com/327396
> ** YAML: http://gist.github.com/327395

Alright, we'll look into it soon when we revisit the API. Thanks for
letting us know!

> I'll use this post also to mention that the /user/show/:username
> request to modify the user information isn't working at all also. I
> tried doing the request in the 3 flavours authenticated and it didn't
> work. I do get the changes in the response, but when i refresh the
> page on github.com the information doesn't get changed. My guess is
> that either the API isn't well documented or it ain't working as in
> the repo delete problem metioned in this thread.

This should be fixed now, thanks for reporting and sorry about that.

> While I'm at it, I almost completed a full GitHub API library wrapper
> in PHP 5 named GudTril on my Cyb3rNet account, 
> http://github.com/Cyb3rNet/GudTril.
> I've developed a thorough API request test file for each method
> described in the API documentation and ported to the PHP GudTril code.
> I didn't try all requests in the three flavours but it would be easily
> feasible with the API method calls tester I've developed for GudTril.

Looks cool!

> Also, the GudTril development was an exercise that ended me getting
> well acquainted with the GitHub API and even came to ponder the idea
> to give some help on the documentation. Although I can extract some
> samples easily in the three flavours and add some extra info in the
> documentation, even though I forked the documentation, still I wonder
> how it would be beneficial for all to have more API info, and of
> course, I don't want to spend some time on documentation without
> getting some background on the documentation development team. So my
> third statement/question here would be: What would be beneficial for
> the GitHub API documentation that maybe I could easily obtain through
> the different results of the GudTril development project and if so how
> would my time be well spent on it. Forking the develop.github.com repo
> and starting working on it without getting some knowledge from the
> GitHub team wouldn't be a good idea although I guess feasible, but not
> guarant of a well spent effort if the work doesn't end up being merged
> and put online. I would be able to give some hand on documentation and
> I think my work would serve well the community.

The API docs are going to undergo some major changes in the near
future so I think this would not be the best use of your time. Though
we certainly appreciate the notion.

-- 
Chris Wanstrath
http://github.com/defunkt

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