Here is a tip to get notified about new releases in an atom feed. Also, while you familiarize yourself with Git, you'll be happy to know that you can edit a project's wiki locally.
Tips and tricks
Subscribing to new releases via atom feed
If you are used to subscribing to feeds to learn the news regarding your favorite blogs, you will be happy to know that you can subscribe to get notified about new releases on GitHub.
Simply go to the releases page and append .atom to the end of the URL. For example, https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/releases becomes https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/releases.atom. Cool, isn't it?