[idea] Write a projectmanager plugin that talks directly with the GitHub REST API.

[justvanrossum]

Scenario:

• Go to fontra GH gateway website (say "fontra.io")
• "Log in with GitHub" (use OAUTH, or whichever method is best)
• Choose a repository hosting a font project
• Look at font/glyph data in Fontra
• Start editing
• Create PR branch, write changes to branch
• Open PR on GH repo

We need one or more test/demo scripts (Python) to learn to do the following things:

• Get GH authorization
• List repositories we have access to
• List folders/files at the top level of a repo
• List folders/files in any folder
• Find files/folders matching an extension (eg. *.designspace)
• How to get the data of a specific file
• How to get a specific version of a specific file
• How to create a branch
• How to write a new (version of a) file to a specific branch (commit/push)

https://github.com/googlefonts/fontra-github

[belluzj]

Like that but for fonts: https://forestry.io/

[justvanrossum]

Also: https://github.dev/github/dev: it is VS-Code web front end to GitHub.

[BlackFoundry]

Alternatively, since this GitHub plugin is not supposed to provide live collaboration, and is likely to be a a touch slow, we could work with local clone of repositories.

Fontra could include the fonctionnalities of the GitHub Desktop application:

• log in with user name
• list and browse available repos
• clone locally
• create branche
• edit / make modifications
• compare versions / branches (overlay? toggle button?)
• commit
• push to origin
• create Pull Request
• visual merge conflict management

Fontra would integrate all the core functionalities of GIT into its UI such as

• rolling back to a previous commit
• switching branches
• tagging
• stashing
• …

That would allow intuitive versionning for single users, and help team collaboration on a common repo, feedbacking, etc.