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Gem may fail if a user has a repository with many contributors
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- [x] The site generated by GitHub Pages
- [ ] Building sites locally
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What did you do (e.g., steps to reproduce)
Ran the Gem when generating a website at https://github.com/bkmgit/2024-05-06-uci-nnlm-online/tree/gh-pages with a fork of https://github.com/sched-ext/sched_ext in my userspace.
What did you expect to happen?
Expected the site to build.
What happened instead?
Site failed to build with log message:
Liquid Exception: GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors in /_layouts/base.html
/usr/local/bundle/gems/octokit-4.25.1/lib/octokit/response/raise_error.rb:14:in `on_complete': GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors (Octokit::Forbidden)
Error can be reproduced by calling
$ curl -L \
> -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
> -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
> https://api.github.com/repos/sched_ext/sched_ext/contributors
Additional information
Initially reported at https://github.com/carpentries/workshop-template/issues/820
Filed in the gem that caused this error: https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata/issues/283
