utterances requires too many permissions

[rain-1]

Hello I wanted to use this but when I went to send a comment it says it needs full access to edit my repos?

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utterances by utterance wants to access your rain-1 account

Repositories: Public only
This application will be able to read and write all public repository data. This includes the following:

• Code
• Issues
• Pull requests
• Wikis
• Settings
• Webhooks and services
• Deploy keys

[markknol]

I question this too. I'm consider using this too, but I am afraid it will discourage user if so many permissions are used.

[rain-1]

yeah. it is very worrying, luckily we can use the system without, by posting on github issues.

It may be that github itself does not support more refined permissions, if that is the case then this application makes a really good case for it.

[phil-opp]

@jdanyow posted in another issue that they are working on more granular permissions: #1 (comment)

[jdanyow]

fixed in #25 🚀

[LukasKalbertodt]

Hi there!

I was trying to use utterances as I think it's a great idea! However, to login via GitHub, it requires the following permissions:

These permissions are somewhat vague and it's not immediately clear to me what this entails. I guess that this is GitHub's fault and you can't work with fewer permissions, but I wanted to ask to be sure. Could someone explain why exactly these permissions are required? Thanks :)

[jdanyow]

@LukasKalbertodt here’s more info:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/issues/619#issuecomment-368942234

[LukasKalbertodt]

@jdanyow Thanks a lot, that answers my questions! :)