Contributor emails not getting populated in the contributors table

[cdolfi]

How Augur is suppose to populate emails:

For every commit, augur checks to see if the author email has a GH account associated with it using the following API endpoint
https://api.github.com/search/users?q={email}+in:email+type:user
called in:
Contributor interface code

This would also impact contributor alias since we are not getting an initial email so any following would be missed as well.

Somewhere this is not getting called or used

Open question(s):

• is insert_facade_contributors running?

Note: contributor resolution is a different limit (50/hr)

This is most likely related to #3692

[Vedag812]

Hi @cdolfi i would like to work on this issue

[MoralCode]

@Vedag812 if youd like to help with this I'd be happy to chat about this in more detail over on the CHAOSS Slack in the #wg-augur-8knot channel. Its a fairly complex issue and at the moment mostly needs more testing/information. If you are able to replicate this on your own instance of Augur, that would be awesome. If youd like to submit a PR, id like to hear what your theory for why it is not working and what your planned approach for fixing the issue is before you file a PR so I can help you avoid duplicating investigation and remediation work that has already been done

[MoralCode]

just did an interesting experiment where I did a regular github web interface search for the email i most commonly use to commit code to augur
The url bar showed
https://github.com/search?q={email address}&type=users

and no results on the users tab (because i think i have my emails on my github set to private).

but there was ~low hundreds # of commit results for that same search.

Even though this search may not return much data, especially for people without a public email, I know the code is attempting to query the author through the commit before trying a search of their email.

Not quite sure what could be causing this to not be working but this may be another useful puzzle piece

[Vedag812]

just did an interesting experiment where I did a regular github web interface search for the email i most commonly use to commit code to augur The url bar showed https://github.com/search?q={email address}&type=users

and no results on the users tab (because i think i have my emails on my github set to private).

but there was ~low hundreds # of commit results for that same search.

Even though this search may not return much data, especially for people without a public email, I know the code is attempting to query the author through the commit before trying a search of their email.

Not quite sure what could be causing this to not be working but this may be another useful puzzle piece

Sure @MoralCode i would definitely look into this one just need a few days time my surprise tests are coming up!! But will definitely look into this one!!

[MoralCode]

Funny enough, the contributors table gets populated in the code before the commits table (#3692 )