Joe Freeman: Tech, Teams, Trade-offs

I migrated a repository from SourceForge to GitHub and wanted to see how many downloads were being done from GitHub.  SourceForge had a great UI for this.  GitHub does not. GitHub has a REST API that you have to script against that provides information about releases and artifacts. Need I wanted to find out the number of downloads for a given release in a specific repository. GitHub API  GitHub API docs can be found here:  https://developer.github.com/v3/   There is also v1, v2 APIs that in some cases are more different than evolutionary. Releases The releases of  portion of their API  https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/  . There is a bunch of stuff to parse through. All releases for a given repository Releases Documentation This API will show you show you all the releases for a given repository.. https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases Example  Owner: freemansoft Repository: jacob-project https://api.github.com/repos/f...

You download GitHub code by "cloning" the repository to a local repository.  They call this a desktop clone. Each  GitHub repository home page has a neat "Clone to Desktop" button in the web interface that you would think clones the repository to your desktop.   That button actually takes you to the GitHub Windows application download page even if you have the GitHub app already installed. This is where I usually get stuck and head off to some search engine for help. The Windows GitHub application tries to tell you what to do at the bottom of the "local repository" screen.  It says to "Drag a repository here to add". That phrase always confused me. I can never figure out where to drag the repository from. It turns out you are supposed to drag the URL for the repository from your browser onto the desktop application.   Resize your browser window so you can drag the repository onto the GitHub windows application. ...