Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding
by jehna1 on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:00PM
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Polar asks you to grant "act on your behalf" permissions to your Github. As someone who has both professional and open source projects at Github, that's a definite deal breaker
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Unfortunately, this is the default by GitHub and their OAuth prompt and nothing we can change. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117
Most of our API integration is purely about synchronising repositories, issues & PRs (read-only). With the exception of 2 things. 1) Inject the Polar badge. We then edit the issue body to append it at the bottom. 2) You can explicitly post a comment as yourself via Polar when you badge an issue, but this is entirely optional and merely a convenience feature would you want to. Requires manual & clear action.
Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding
by senden9 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:19AM
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I did come here to post the same reaction. I saw the OAuth prompt with "act on your behalf" and intermediately closed the browser tab.
When I want to take a look at something new I do not want ti give it what looks like nearly full access on my account.