Redundant License Information (GitHub)
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 59
- Forks
- 28
- PR merge metrics
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Description
It looks like some amount of license information is manually maintained and provided by [`scraper/github/util.py`](https://github.com/LLNL/scraper/blob/49bad7c09677b5c45ddf22b3ccd2444bf5c1322e/scraper/github/util.py).
Complete license listings are readily available from GitHub and seem to make this script redundant.
via the REST API
https://api.github.com/licenses
or via the GraphQL API
```gql
{
licenses() {
spdxId
name
url
}
}
```
Perhaps we could re-write [`scraper/code_gov/models.py`](https://github.com/LLNL/scraper/blob/49bad7c09677b5c45ddf22b3ccd2444bf5c1322e/scraper/code_gov/models.py) and any other relevant code such that we wouldn't have to maintain these hard-coded mappings?
(Suggested in #37 )
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read scraper/github/util.py and scraper/code_gov/models.py, then inspect the GitHub REST /licenses endpoint and the GraphQL licenses query described in the issue. Trace other relevant license callers; the work is done when license listings no longer depend on manually maintained mappings.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, python
- Domain
- api, tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100