Reliable contributors data

[micahalcorn]

The GitHub contributors data often doesn't load.

[rolandpo]

fix is up to at least hide the '0 open-source contributors' when not loaded, not yet deployed

[micahalcorn]

fix is up to at least hide the '0 open-source contributors' when not loaded, not yet deployed

Thanks, what's the underlying issue here?

[rolandpo]

there's a lot of calls going on to get contributors from multiple repositories so might be going over the API limit, might have to add some access token to the request

[micahalcorn]

there's a lot of calls going on to get contributors from multiple repositories so might be going over the API limit, might have to add some access token to the request

Would it make sense for us to just store the information in our db and then update it periodically with a cron job or something?

[joshfraser]

We already built a script to pull and cache this on the python stack. Perhaps we serve the data from the API instead?

[rolandpo]

oh yeah good call, I'll look into it in a bit

[rolandpo]

related PR:
OriginProtocol/origin-website#651