Fetches our release notes from git. Only gets issues from the most recent closed milestone that use a specific label ("type: bug" for proof of concept).

releasenotes.php

<?php

function os_releasenotes() {
  $milestones = _os_releasenotes_milestones('closed');
  $latest = $milestones[0];
  
  $api_url =   'https://api.github.com/repos/openscholar/openscholar/issues';
  
  //get labeled issues
  $params = array('state' => 'closed', 'labels' => 'type: bug', 'milestone' => $latest['number']);
  $query_params = array();
  foreach ($params as $k => $v) {
    $query_params[] = $k . '=' . str_replace(' ', '%20', $v); //api func for this?
  }
  $url = $api_url . '?' . implode('&', $query_params);
  
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $result = curl_exec($curl);
  
  
  //what about getting latest copmleted milestone
  
  if (!$result) {
    $info = curl_getinfo($curl);
    dpm($info);
    curl_close($curl);
    return 'curl error';
  }
  
  curl_close($curl);
  $json = drupal_json_decode($result);
  //dpm($json);
  
  $txt = '<h1>' . $latest['description']. '</h1>';
  $total = $latest['closed_issues']+$latest['open_issues'];
  $txt .= '<p><em>' . $latest['title'] . '</em> - ' . $latest['closed_issues'] . '/' . $total . ' issues closed</p>';  
  
  foreach ($json as $issue) {
    $txt .= '<p>';
    $txt .= '<strong>' . $issue['title'] . '</strong><br />';
    $txt .= l($issue['url'], $issue['url']) . '<br />';
    foreach ($issue['labels'] as $label) {
      $txt .= '[<span style="color: #'.$label['color'].'">' . $label['name'] . '</span>] ';
    }
    $txt .= '<br />' . $issue['body']; 
    $txt .= '</p>';
  }
  
  return $txt;
}

function _os_releasenotes_milestones($state = NULL) {
  $url =   'https://api.github.com/repos/openscholar/openscholar/milestones';
  if ($state && in_array($state, array('open', 'closed'))) {
    $url .= '?state=' . $state;
  }
  
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $result = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);

  if (!$result) {
    return 'milestone error';
  }
  
  return ($result) ? drupal_json_decode($result) : 'milestone error';
}

From github support:

You can use the HTML Media Type[1] to get the rendered markdown in the body_html attribute.
curl -H "Accept: appliation/vnd.github.html" https://api.github.com/repos/pengwynn/octonaut/issues/3
http://developer.github.com/v3/media/