In reply to Konstantin Kovshenin.

Konstantin, thanks for sharing. Unfortunately Piet is right. If some of our staff are using Github to update plugin documentation, teaching them to use (let along configure) that shell script is a fair amount of overhead. Adding a step of passing that documentation over to a programmer to add to Github and then deploy via shellscript is a lot of wasted hours over the year.

What would really help is if Otto would just add something similar to Wordpress SVN to allow plugin authors to simply hook up a Github repository (a single repository not the whole account at a time) instead of SVN. I'm sure Github would be happy to add a simple signal to Wordpress.org that a plugin repository should be updated. There would be no issue of shared credentials or security.

Some things are really done more easily at the server level, directly between services.