Repository information facelift (Stars, Forks, Latest Release...)

Description

Allow a user to configure mkdocs-material to display the latest github release version for a linked repo.

Use Cases

Github releases are used more and more to distribute source code or pre-built artifacts. Since mkdocs-material doc site is often a front of the underlying repo (effectively being a home page of a project in lots of cases) it seems very valuable to display the latest available release of the project.

Screenshots / Mockups

I leave it to the contributors/authots to decided what is the best way to display that information, a very simple mockup can look like that:

The assumption here is that clicking on the release <li> element will forward a user to the gh releases page directly, instead of the repo main page

[squidfunk]

So I think I’m all for pulling off a slight facelift of the repository container, as it hasn’t received any love since version 1. We could replace the titles with GitHub’s own icons (it’s more international anyway), and maybe allow for some customization via mkdocs.yml, i.e. the author can provide a list which is composed of allowed keywords to denote the order he wishes:

extra:
  repo:
    facts:
      - latest
      - stars
      - forks

[hellt]

I’m ok without the release number having a link to the release specific URL It’s good just to display the latest release version