I want to make a page on my website containing the information form for the bug they faced while using the website and web application.
Then I want to show those feedback to my private GitHub repository, so that I can keep track of all the bugs and work on fixing them.
Is there any GitHub API for this purpose?
Using the GitHub API (like suggested in the other answer) is a possible solution, but requires you to implement the UI by yourself, call the API with proper authentication etc. etc.
If you want a simpler solution with less work for you, you could point your users directly from your website to your GitHub issue tracker.
Unfortunately, GitHub doesn't support private repositories with public issues. Their official solution for this problem is to
create a second (public) repo and use this just to host the public issues.
If changing your hosting provider is an option for you, you could migrate your project to Bitbucket.
They offer unlimited private repos for free if you have max. five users, and it's possible to have a private repo with a public issue tracker.
Quote from the last link:
Users with administrative rights on a repository can set a Bitbucket
Cloud issue tracker as private or public. When your tracker is
public, anyone can view, create, and comment on issues it contains.
This includes people who land on the website but who do not have a
Bitbucket account. The system asks these users to verify they are
people with a CAPTCHA.
You can set your Bitbucket repository, wiki,
and issue tracker as private or public, independently of each other.
For example, you can hide your code from the world by setting your
repository as private, but let people see your documentation and
issues by marking your wiki and issue tracker as public. Or you could
set your repository and wiki as public but keep your issue tracker
private. You can change any of these settings from private to public,
or public to private, at any time.
GitHub does have an API and one if its end-points is for creating bugs:
https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/
Well, https://github.com/tan-tan-kanarek/github-php-client this worked like a charm for me. In my scenario, I was working in phalcon framework and I used this API to submit issue to a private GitHub repository.
Authentication is pretty simple in this API .
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A public Github repository belongs to one of my fellow developers. I need to put comments on certain areas of code. I have done this previously using pull requests
Is there a way to do it without opening a pull request and directly commenting on the code?
I don't see an option as of now. Not sure if the other developer needs to add me or grant certain permissions
I am trying to share my Github Pages only via link (if possible, keeping my repo private), just like the link-only share option of Google Drive. Specifically, only those with the URL can access the github.io website that I made, while the repo (the github.com website) is preferably not accessible to anyone. May I ask if it's possible, even via third-party tools?
if you share any link from a private repository, you will get an error 404.
Something you can do to test this behavior... is open a chrome tab in incognito mode and paste your link ... there you will see the error.
If you want to share any link in one of your repositories, it must be Public.
If there is another possibility, please let someone tell us how to do it. regards
In general, I don't know if there's a third-party tool to do the work, but it's easy to make it by hand, provides that you're not creating a lot of such pages.
First, is it possible to make a public GitHub Pages based on private repository?
Yes. Just create a private repository, head to Settings >> Options, find the section called "GitHub Pages" and set the source branch. This process is just the same as creating any GitHub pages.
P.S. you SHOULD see the message
Caution: This repository is private but the published site will be public.
This states exactly what you want.
only those with the URL can access the github.io website
Well, just make the URL difficult to guess.
For example, named the repository as a random string "uk5KKR".
However, this will likely mess up the repositories in your profile, soon after you'll be difficult to find the correct repository that you need now.
Instead, you can named name in this way: "githubpage_uk5KKR".
For other people, it's difficult to find this page when they are not provided the URL. And for you, just search "githubpage" in your profile and this repository should appear.
Here's a few notes:
You should adjust the length of the random string according to how secure you need.
It's also possible to make a quarantine area by the path name in a repository. For example, create paths "n2jnHG" and "4xSN2g" in the same repository of GitHub page, then the contents in these two paths could be shared with different people.
Finally, note that if anyone failed to keep the URL secret, the whole page is not secret anymore. It could even become an entry in Google search result.
Is it possible to set up a Webhook to notify me every time a new repo is created on the whole public environment of Github (not limited to an specific organisation)?
No, not possible currently. If you'd like to share your use-case for this, please get in touch with us: https://github.com/contact
It looks like it is not possible to submit issues (ie bug reports and feature requests) to a public GitHub repository without logging-in to GitHub first.
Does anyone know of any way to enable or circumvent this?
Edit: I'm looking to activate this on a specific repository that I control. I'm not looking for a way to comment anonymously on other public repos.
Is there a way to know which people have merge privileges on a public GitHub repository. If the owner is a user and not an organization, then at least I know one maintainer, but it's possible that there are other users with merge rights. Also, if the owner is an organization it is possible, that not all members of the organization have merge rights. So is there a way to find the exact maintainers?
Team privileges are not public in general. Even an organization-membership is not public since the publicity must be chosen by the given member, as the Documentation states:
,,By default, your organization membership visibility is set to private. You can choose to publicize individual organization memberships on your profile."
This partly applies for their implementation of CODEOWNERS, too. If it is up to date the given source file is annotated with a link to its responsible GitHub user.
However there's normally no need to know the individual maintainers of a repository (since every interaction with repos you're able to access is covered by the GitHub UI, which also assures that somebody takes care about your request). If your attention is about a public repository you might search the commits for accepted pull-request. But in that case you would preferably fork the repo and just generate pull-requests on your own.
You are even not able to contact an organization via GitHub - try to find their official website, contact them and ask for their maintainers if you need that information.
GitHub (since July 2017) now officially supports "code owners" for projects. Code owners are individuals or teams that are responsible for code in a repository.
Project maintainers can add a CODEOWNERS file to their repository to make it easier for others to identify code owners and have code owners be notified to review Issues and Pull Requests.
See the announcement post and help article for more info.
Just go to the team members tab within your repo, on the right it will describe what type of member they are. Ex: member or owner.