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Unable to add issue tracker when user account is linked to GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, ruby

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by reproducing tracker setup for a user linked to GitHub, then trace the validation that requests a username and password and the path that uses the profile OAuth token. Done means a linked account can add the GitHub issue tracker without real credentials and the tracker uses that OAuth token.

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Description

My user is linked to my GitHub account and when trying to add GitHub issue tracker I get the following error message: "You must specify your GitHub username and password". This should not be necessary. When entering some random values as username and password it gets added. The issue tracker then use my GitHub OAuth token from my user profile.

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
9
Forks
7
Avg merge
17h 53m
Merged PRs (30d)
12

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