Sync Github and Gitcoin Issue Details

[PixelantDesign]

As a user I want to see the most updated issue details from Github on Gitcoin.co

Description

Once a funder completes the bounty creation flow. Any edits made to the details of the task on the Github issue page do not sync back to the issue page on Gitcoin.co. It would be great if this was synced at some interval of time.

Definition of Done

• From a technical perspective explore improvement approaches to solve for the above.
• Review approach with Gitcoin core dev team
• Propose any ux changes to messaging if required (may not be needed).
• Build proposed/reviewed solution

Reviewers

@owocki or @mbeacom

Materials

This is the page that should be up to date.

[owocki]

this is a good idea 👌

[mbeacom]

@PixelantDesign @owocki We update all current bounties at an interval of: 1 */5 * * * being :01 of every fifth hour.
We execute refresh_bounties Django management command which updates comment counts and issue description. We can add `bounty.fetch_issue_item('title') to additionally update the title, if that's what you're referring to not being updated.

Also, I am assuming this is a priority since I was assigned to this issue?

[owocki]

We can add `bounty.fetch_issue_item('title') to additionally update the title, if that's what you're referring to not being updated.

i think @PixelantDesign is referring to the issue desc, not the title

[owocki]

W e update all current bounties at an interval of: 1 */5 * * * being :01 of every fifth hour.

i just worry that if we increase this amount… then once we have enough bounties in the system the jobs will start to overlap with each other and crash the server..
this is somewhere it’d be great to have a message queue to manage these tasks..

[mbeacom]

Agreed. I'd love to frontload the celery integration, but I think #477 is fairly close. I don't want to overlap on @g33klord's efforts. I only brought up title, because that's the only thing we're not already syncing on interval. So, how'd you all like to proceed with this open issue? Syncing of bounty details is being performed already, but not quite as often as one would like. If we're in agreement that updating the title is irrelevant and we shouldn't decrease the time between refreshing bounties, we're a bit hobbled until we implement celery.

[owocki]

i think syncing title is the right move.. and well need to come up with a larger gameplan to make it sync more often on another ticket (probably this one #520 )

[vs77bb]

@owocki @PixelantDesign @mbeacom A countercase to consider... if a repo maintainer is lazy with their titles / we'd like it to be a bit more descriptive, would we want it to be tightly coupled?

IMHO the functionality should be that Gitcoin syncs with Github, but a manual override is possible on Gitcoin (for cases where issue titles aren't visually appealing).

[mbeacom]

@vs77bb That makes sense! With the previous and current flows, we're changing the bounty details regardless of the description entered during initial creation of the bounty during syncs and now with titles. We should probably rework the way we handle these fields following initial creation. With the mentioned changes, we could consider mutable title/description fields for bounty funders on the details page.

[owocki]

perhaps this is too engineer-ey... but could we just have a checkbox that dictates whether or not the issue metadata is synced with github or not?

[PixelantDesign]

@owocki @vs77bb If we can't sync it, we should at least make it clear to users when it was last synced, so they are aware that it's outdated information.

[PixelantDesign]

I also think a lazy repo maintainer is a random edge case.

[mbeacom]

Re-opened. This issue was closed automatically when I merged the above proposed action steps.