adobe / adobe/oss-contributors

Could we replace github.com user profile scraping with githubtorrent data?

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enhancement help wanted question
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
35
Forks
9
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

This came in to my inbox: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/ghtorrent-bq:ght.users?tab=preview

Essentially, GHTorrent.org is scraping user profiles and putting the data into BigQuery tables. If this is legit, then this should replace/make obsolete about 90% of this project. Yay! 🎉

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the existing GitHub user-profile scraping entry point and compare its required fields with the GHTorrent BigQuery users table linked in the issue. Confirm whether that data source is legitimate and sufficient to replace most of the current project, then document the migration scope and acceptance criteria.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github, javascript
Domain
data
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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