github OAuth authentication need ?

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Olivier Berger
> <olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:
>> Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Olivier Berger
>>> <olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure I understand the need for authenticating to github, though,
>>>> as we're doing only read-only queries and some kind of throttling.
>>>>
>>>> Can you share a bit more details ?
>>>
>>> if you're not authenticated, then you get rate-limited; there some
>>> link out there that describes it in details, dont remember the exact
>>> url tho
>>>
>>
>> OK, found it : https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting
>>
>>>> I'd like to make the token configurable in the yaml file (and possibly
>>>> document its generation) but I'm in doubt about its actuall need.
>>>
>>> it's not different than all the other auth methods we use in the other btses
>>>
>>
>> Well, they might as well move to the config file if needed ;-)
>
> I'm considering changing all the passwords/tokens, remove them from
> the python files and store them in a 600 file on sonntag only.
>

For the records, Sandro seems to have completed this.

Back to normal for GitHub issues, judging from yesterday's run logs.

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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