Workaround for api.github.com limits

[michalpristas]

Using vgo fetching we are hitting limits set by github.com for anonymous users.
We need to find a way how to authenticate to github from Olympus.
As we might event hit limits set for individual users some agreement with github would be nice.

If the agreement is out of option we need to find a workaround.

[arschles]

We need to find a way how to authenticate to github from Olympus

For now, let's put a token into our requests as the basic first step.

some agreement with github would be nice

👍

[michalpristas]

do we need some shared account? what is the best practice here

[airylinus]

May be you can use Personal Access Code, find more on github.com here

[ghost]

I wonder if we can get a token under the org. Like a personal one but for @gomods

[arschles]

Good question, I will look into this

[arschles]

I've added a preview label to this because we should at least look into a GH token to handle high volumes of go gets for "misses"

[arschles]

Currently if you set up a .netrc file on the machine that you run Athens from, the go mod download calls that Athens does on the backend will respect the token you set in the file.

Closing