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"stable since it is used in production" - if only thats always the case!

yeah i was wondering about that too...

"Github.js is automatically™ tested by the users of Prose. Because of that, we decided to save some time by not maintaining a test suite."

I know that Prose isn't a for-profit, business-centric app, but how does this work exactly? Is there some system built in to notify developers when an error happens, like with Airbrake? If so, THAT sounds like an awesome tool for businesses!

Haha, no. ;) We started with a test suite, but once Prose launched we had a lot of users reading and writing files to GitHub using GitHub.js (almost 5000 GitHub users have logged in at least once). So it was implicitly tested by the crowd. If something goes wrong, we know it pretty soon. Running automated tests against the GitHub API is kinda tough, and I haven't had the resources to maintain a test suite. Well, it all makes good progress, and gets more and more reliable.

Feedback welcome though, on both the API and the implementation. -- Michael

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