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Discover human authors from commit history when contributor profiles are incomplete

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, javascript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by locating the importer and its existing contributor and commit-history handling. Trace how unauthenticated and authenticated pagination is currently performed, then add tests covering bounded pagination, human-name filtering, and import behavior. Done means eligible human authors are discovered while bot identities and username-like values are ignored, existing precedence and ordering remain intact, and rate-limit behavior is documented.

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Description

Problem

The contributor API may omit people or return GitHub accounts with no usable display name. The importer currently only inspects a small initial commit list for co-authors.

Scope

Discover human commit authors from recent commit history with bounded unauthenticated/authenticated pagination. Reject bot identities and username-like values; preserve existing metadata author precedence, ordering, and deduplication. Keep this separate from the contributor fallback count fix in #56.

Acceptance criteria

  • Find eligible human names in commit history and ignore handles/automated identities.
  • Bound page scans and document rate-limit behavior.
  • Add tests for pagination, filtering, and import behavior.
Dominant language
JavaScript
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Merged PRs (30d)
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