Use the GitHub status API (similar to Travis)

[asmeurer]

See https://github.com/blog/1227-commit-status-api.

[certik]

We should definitely use it. However --- wouldn't it clash with Travis' results?

[asmeurer]

It says commits can have multiple statuses, so I think that means that you can just stack them. If not, we should definitely request that.

[certik]

Maybe we can just post the statuses and not comments?

[asmeurer]

Maybe. We'll see how it looks and what people think.

[certik]

From their blog:

Statuses cannot be changed once added to a commit (they're completely immutable), but any number of statuses may be attached to a single commit. We only display the most recent status for any given commit in our UI.

So it's not clear how things work with multiple applications changing statuses.

[asmeurer]

So it sounds like the feature is somewhat crippled at the moment.