rate limited API

Posted Jun 7, 2018 19:24 UTC (Thu) by dw (subscriber, #12017)
In reply to: rate limited API by joey
Parent article: Development quotes of the week

> Finding comments attached to commits is additional API calls (and there was not a way to discover them other than trying every commit in turn last I checked

Seems that wasn't any time recently:

- https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments/#list-com...
- https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/events/#list-event...

> 12 hours to check something out is not fertile ground for a distributed ecosystem to develop

To be clear it was 12 hours to sync 40k tickets and then per the APIs above, O(changes) thereafter.