"The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API"

[parkr]

Capture this error, warn, and return no contributors:

Liquid Exception: GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors in /_layouts/base.html
/usr/local/bundle/gems/octokit-4.25.1/lib/octokit/response/raise_error.rb:14:in `on_complete': GET https://api.github.com/repos/bkmgit/sched_ext/contributors?per_page=100: 403 - The history or contributor list is too large to list contributors for this repository via the API. // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#list-repository-contributors (Octokit::Forbidden)

Here's the API:

$ curl -L \
> -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
> -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
> https://api.github.com/repos/sched_ext/sched_ext/contributors

Originally reported in github/pages-gem#915

[S0AndS0]

Seems to triggering this issue via Liquid after forking NixOS/nixpkgs publicly is reasonably reliable;

{% assign repo_name = site.github.repository_name %}
{% assign this_repo = site.github.public_repositories | where: "name", repo_name | first %}

... this happens on blog that is not associated with NixOS/nixpkgs directly. Simply by being a contributor to a popular project produces punishing problems.