Interacting with the GitHub API

Now that we can retrieve the GitHub URI for any package in the General registry, we can use it to interact with the GitHub API. Julia developers have access to a powerful GitHub library provided by the GitHub package. It's what we'll use in order to create new issues on the packages' GitHub repos.

Authenticating with the GitHub API

In order to be allowed to interact with the GitHub API, we have to authenticate. This will permit our package to execute actions on GitHub under the user's account as if done directly through the website. Please access https://github.com/settings/tokens/new to set up a new GitHub access token. If you're not familiar with the concept and would...