Contributors page and contributors listed on each accelerator page should have pictures

[mtran-affirma]

pictures should be pulled in dynamically from github based on the contributor's github alias so that it is in sync with whichever photo they choose to upload (or not) for their Github account

Related to #36

we will need to create custom scripts that leverage the public github api to retrieve information about the contributors for the git repo for a delivery accelerator page, parse the JSON request, and display that information, filtering out the following bot accounts:
microsoft-github-operations[bot]
microsoftopensource
dependabot[bot]

[mtran-affirma]

pending #25

[mtran-affirma]

hi @bmirza-affirma , assigning to you!

we will need to compile a script to retrieve the list of contributors from within the context of the github pages site we created.

this api example does give us the api url for retrieving information about github users such as a link to their profile! so we could use this to link on the Contributor's page, and also try to retrieve the location of the user's display picture to display on the page dynamically - this script could be shared and used in the individual accelerator pages as well to link and show information about the contributors):

[WillieAhlers1]

@mtran-affirma , @Jbetts05 has a working script (python) that can be translated to javascript, to extract the required information

[Jbetts05]

@mtran-affirma, @WillieAhlers1 Hi both, see attached the script- we decided to use a 'topic' for each repo called 'dstoolkit'. The api call retrieves all microsoft repos with the topic:dstoolkit and for each repo retrieves its contributors. Then it filters out the bot accounts and creates 3 json files:

• user_profiles.json: user name and profile image url
• contributors_per_repo.json: repo name and contributors
• unique_contributors.json: contributors

it seems we can't access repos when they are private, I've added the dstoolkit topic to forecasting so once the repo is published the script should then be able to pick that up
[github_api.zip]

[mtran-affirma]

hi @Jbetts05 @WillieAhlers1 , thank you for sharing your prototype scripts for the functionality! This helps us with examples for the specific API calls used to retrieve information about repos and contributors.

@bmirza-affirma fyi

update: After more discovery, we will be leveraging the dstoolkit tag after all since we don't have a database here and leveraging the tag on the git repos is more maintainable than needing to maintain a static list within code! (The only potential issue here is if someone incorrectly tags their own git repo with the topic "dstoolkit" and their contributors suddenly show up on our website - hopefully not something that would occur but fyi that it's technically possible.)