Fetch and show recent PRs created in github for #ocaml tag

It would be nice to get a quick glimpse of what PRs are being actively worked on for various ocaml libraries. Maybe this content could be added to a new page initially, and then we could move it into a section of an existing page.

In particular, we could use the github api to fetch all open PRs for repositories tagged ocaml using an ocaml script. A page could invoke the ocaml script and generate an html table with the top 5 results, ordered by most recently updated time.

This content is only meant to provide a quick glimpse of activity. For people who want to track activity in detail, they will use other means.

[pitag-ha]

I really like the idea! I'll have to discuss with @patricoferris, but -if teasible- this would be a great issue for Outreachy applicants for the opam package search project (maybe you already had that in mind...). Do you know if there is a way to pass the authentication process and interact with the github API from the client-side?

[patricoferris]

Yep, totally agree, this would be great 👍

I think a good place for someone to start is trying to get it working without authentication (I think you can do some requests without it https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/getting-started-with-the-rest-api#authentication) and probably using the Github library for OCaml: https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-github

If we can get a basic example off the ground similar to the RSS feeds then I can look at adding OAuth into the deployment (if we need it...). It would be nice if locally we don't need any authentication. I will add that I think this is a non-trivial amount of work especially for anyone with little OCaml experience, but happy to help anyone who takes this on.

[pitag-ha]

@dinakajoy, are you still eager to work on something more related to the opam package search project? What do you think about this issue? Since you've already done a couple of great contributions, you could work on a medium, opam package search project related issue like this.

[dinakajoy]

Sure, I am. I will follow it up and reach out for guidance when needed. Thank you

(maybe you already had that in mind...).

We both found scaladex pretty interesting at some point. It has some interesting data feeds, similar to this issue.

[dinakajoy]

I could not find a way to get all repos tagged ocaml. So I think we will link them individually. I also came across this https://reactlibraries.com/ and would like to know if a similar concept will be good with each link displaying details of the library and pull request details.
@pitag-ha please what do you think about this?

[pitag-ha]

I've just noticed that I've been thinking about "topic" all the time instead of "tag". @dinakajoy and @kanishka-work , is that also what you meant?

I could not find a way to get all repos tagged ocaml.

Yes, you're right. I didn't know, but the github GraphQl schema doesn't seem to allow to query for topics directly. Have you tried a graphql search query?

I also came across this https://reactlibraries.com/

Nice! That looks like a good example that we could follow. :)

[dinakajoy]

I've just noticed that I've been thinking about "topic" all the time instead of "tag". @dinakajoy and @kanishka-work , is that also what you meant?

I searched for tags but I will also check for topics

Yes, you're right. I didn't know, but the github GraphQl schema doesn't seem to allow to query for topics directly. Have you tried a graphql search query?

Let me check this out, I only checked the REST API.
Thank you for pointing it out

[pitag-ha]

I searched for tags but I will also check for topics

Ok, I hope I'm not mixing things up myself. I think "tags" are git tags, whereas "topic" is a concept in github itself:

[dinakajoy]

Yea, I wanted to search for any github repo related to ocaml by name but I think that might not work. The solution might be to add the libraries one by one and make a request to get the repo details from github when the library link is clicked for details.

The solution might be to add the libraries one by one and make a request to get the repo details from github when the library link is clicked for details.

I agree with this as a simplification.

Another way to simplify this task would be to use a hardcoded list of repositories and focus on getting the repo detail for that fixed list. Initially, the list could consist of a few repositories.

I've just noticed that I've been thinking about "topic" all the time instead of "tag". @dinakajoy and @kanishka-work , is that also what you meant?

Yes

[patricoferris]

If it is even more helpful we can narrow the scope further, maybe just try with the OCaml compiler (i.e. ocaml/ocaml for now).