This repo contains a number of tools for working with GitHub repositories:

• author-check.py: Check that AUTHORS is correct in our repos.
• pull-age.py: Compute the age of pull requests.
• wall.py: Run the wall-displayed Pull Request aging chart.
• copy-labels.py: Copy labels from one GitHub repo to another.

Most of these make GitHub api calls, and so will need GitHub credentials in order to not be severely rate-limited. Edit (or create) ~/.netrc so that it has an entry like this:

machine api.github.com
  login nedbat
  password ddf9079e12042ac022c101c61c0235965851e209

The login is your GitHub user name, the password is the personal access token you get from https://github.com/settings/applications.

A commandline utility for checking for consistency between committers, people who have signed a contributor agreement and people in the AUTHORS file.

./author_check.py <owner>/<repo>
audits the given repo

./author_check.py <owner>/<repo> <pull-request-number>
audits the given pull request

./author_check.py <user>
status of given user

./author_check.py
audits all repos in repos.yaml

You'll need to have virtualenv installed already. Then run:

git clone https://github.com/edx/author-check.git
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

You'll also need to grab a personal access token from Github (go to https://github.com/settings/applications to create one) and create an auth.yaml file of the form:

user: "<your github username>"
token: "<your personal access token>"

people.yaml contains the mapping between Github username and the canonical entry for AUTHORS files. It also has information about whether the person has signed a contributor agreement or is covered by the institution they work for.

Please send any feedback to jtauber@edx.org.