add ability to add contributor information to html pages (#1254)

[RussBerg]

Ok I finally have all the code changes made to accomplish what was talked about, The contributors are listed left to right most recent to oldest, mouse over gives name and date of last commit and clicking avatar takes you to that persons github profile.

Also added is the link to create a new github issue in the get help link.

A github access token is required to retrieve the contributor information from the github API and this token is passed in the environment variable GH_TOKEN. During the codecamp @mkuehbach sent me an example of how they do it in fairmat https://github.com/FAIRmat-NFDI/nexus-fairmat-proposal/blob/main/.github/workflows/update-proposal-webpage.yml

So it looks like what we need can be achieved in jenkins by wrapping the line:

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/2635a440a5d7cb0e521526a553116a9bc7aa0be0/jenkins_build#L30

like this?

withEnv(['GH_TOKEN=secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN']) {
         // Then call to build docs
         ( cd ../impatient-guide && rm -rf _build && make latexpdf && make html )

     }

please @prjemian could you check me on this closes #1254

[prjemian]

@RussBerg Sorry, I won't have time to review in the next day or so. Perhaps someone else can review? I re-assigned to the NeXus developers

[RussBerg]

@PeterC-DLS are you familiar with the jenkins stuff to hazard a guess on how to pull the github access token from "secrets" and add it to the environment?

[PeterC-DLS]

Yes, I can adjust the workflow to populate the environment running the build with the token. Note, the CI is failing as there are files not formatted correctly.

[PeterC-DLS]

See this change https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/76d84d6f56900b2a4c24020474f5c4e41d8f1025/.github/workflows/ci.yaml#L55-L56 and add it to https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/83498e7fbd02ed4eea664b9c37fef4e43a3b5498/.github/workflows/ci.yaml#L72

[PeterC-DLS]

Sorry, I clicked the wrong button!

[PeterC-DLS]

Does the CI GH token allow access to GH's REST API? If not, I could set an specific access token for this purpose

[RussBerg]

yes the url that I am passing the token to in github.py uses the REST API endpoint