Allow for an optional maximum number of entries to display.

github_activity/Readme.rst

@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ For example, to track Pelican project activity, the setting would be::
 
      GITHUB_ACTIVITY_FEED = 'https://github.com/getpelican.atom'
 
+If you want to limit the amount of entries to a certain maximum set the
+``GITHUB_ACTIVITY_MAX_ENTRIES`` parameter.
+
+     GITHUB_ACTIVITY_MAX_ENTRIES = 10
+
 On the template side, you just have to iterate over the ``github_activity``
 variable, as in this example::
 

github_activity/github_activity.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class GitHubActivity():
         import feedparser
         self.activities = feedparser.parse(
             generator.settings['GITHUB_ACTIVITY_FEED'])
+        self.max_entries = generator.settings['GITHUB_ACTIVITY_MAX_ENTRIES'] 
 
     def fetch(self):
         """
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ class GitHubActivity():
                     [element for element in [activity['title'],
                         activity['content'][0]['value']]])
 
-        return entries
+        return entries[0:self.max_entries]
 
 
 def fetch_github_activity(gen, metadata):