Yeah, I'm curious why it needs write access or personal info beyond your email.
Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier
by jzelinskie on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:30PM
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I don't know if things have improved, but the last time I worked with GitHub's API, they only had one scope for working with repositories and it pretty much gives you the ability to do everything.
>access to private repos
>read and write access to github
that's a little too much but thanks for the suggestion