Subject: [bug#54241] [PATCH 0/4] 'github' importer gracefully handles rate limiting

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:07:39 +0100

Ludovic Courtès schreef op do 03-03-2022 om 22:13 [+0100]:
> With this change, ‘guix refresh’ warns you when the GitHub rate limit
> is reached, but it keeps going, falling back to the ‘generic-git’
> updater if it’s among the applicable updaters:
> [...]

WDYT of avoiding the rate limit by caching, using 'http-fetch/cached'?
GitHub does not count requests setting If-Modified-Since against the
rate limit (assuming the answer hasn't changed).

Greetings,
Maxime.