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Automatically retrieve missing webhook deliveries
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 72
- Forks
- 5
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
GitHub has an API to list all webhook deliveries in the last three days, retrieve the body of the events, and re-submit the webhooks. It would be nice to update the GitHub server to automatically scrape that API for missing deliveries, without having to manually do that when recovering from outages.
Note that we'll want to filter which webhooks we retrieve the payload for: during the last production outage we had ~7000 missed deliveries, but only 270 of them were for events we actually cared about.
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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
Start by reading the linked GitHub webhook deliveries API and tracing the existing GitHub server webhook handling. Determine how missed deliveries can be identified and filtered to events the service uses, then verify that selected deliveries can be retrieved and resubmitted after an outage.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, rust
- Domain
- api, backend, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100