Private assignment with no private repositories available

[johndbritton]

Creating a private assignment if there are no private repositories available results in a poor experience:

[tarebyte]

@johndbritton the public API doesn't allow me to check to see if the user has private repositories does it. I read through the docs and it doesn't seem like it.

Any recommendations about how to safe guard against this?

[johndbritton]

@pengwynn Do you have any suggestions for this? We'd like to be able to check the number of available private repositories in the organization's plan via the API.

[pengwynn]

@johndbritton @tarebyte: I'm assuming you'd be authenticating as someone who otherwise could create a new repository? You just need a way to know if there's headroom on the plan to do so?

[tarebyte]

@pengwynn yup that's exactly it. We authenticate an organization admin who can create repos on behalf of the org.

[tarebyte]

@pengwynn @johndbritton as it turns out you can get the plan for an organization.

I just 🚶 right by it.

https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/#response-4

[johndbritton]

Here's the result I'm seeing now as a student who tries to accept an invitation to a private individual assignment on an organization which has no private repositories available

Need to handle the following cases:

• accepting private individual assignment
• accepting private group assignment
• teacher creating private individual assignment (disallow if they have no private repositories and tell them what their remaining quota is)
• teacher creating private group assignment (disallow if they have no private repositories and tell them what their remaining quota is)