Show star and fork counts for Github-hosted code pages

[dmcassel]

For projects hosted on GitHub, periodically retrieve the number of stars and forks. Display those. This could be useful for indicating which projects are popular.

The problem with these metrics is people don't tend to un-star or delete forks. Corona has 38 stars and 10 forks, even though it was replaced by MarkLogic 6's REST API. Better metrics?

[popzip]

+1 for usefulness
Maybe also include "Last updated"?

[dmcassel]

I like the idea of including last updated.

[dmcassel]

Fields available at https://api.github.com/repos/{account}/{repo}:

• description
• tags_url
• contributors_url (gives an array; show .length as contributor count)
• releases_url
• updated_at
• stargazers_count
• watchers_count
• forks_count
• subscribers_count

[dmcassel]

DMC currently runs on ML7. The responses come back from the GitHub API in JSON. I could process that in XQuery, but it would be easier in SJS. As such, pushing this one off for now.