Adding a widget throws octokit exception

[asklar]

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might require a fix in octokit?

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[asklar]

doesn't happen all the time, might be a result of an issue falling out of the "top 10 pages" list?

[asklar]

this is an interesting bug :)

A long time ago, Python had its own bug database/git repository called BPO. Then they migrated to github. As part of the migration, they decided to not migrate their users and instead create "mannequin" accounts. Somehow this became a feature in GitHub: What on Earth is a “mannequin”?

the widget found a PR in the python/cpython repo, which was created by one of these mannequin accounts:
python/cpython#50246

Octokit.net does not know how to deal with these as they don't represent real users.

[dkbennett]

I will add additional exception handling around the Octokit calls for System.ArgumentException to ignore that record and continue. I think we need an Octokit fix for a permanent solution, but we should at least be able to catch & skip when this is encountered, and log it. Probably worthy of a telemetry event also.

[krschau]

Octokit fix: octokit/octokit.net#2687
Not sure how quickly they put out releases https://github.com/octokit/octokit.net/releases (looks like potentially quite quickly).