Best practices for Throttling / Rate Limiting about discussions

[kytrinyx]

I don't know of any clients patterns that do this well, but I think that we should consider the various use cases that people would want, and then see if we can make a pattern that would accommodate the usual ones.

E.g. I, personally, would want to be able to say if you hit the rate limit, wait until the limit resets, then keep going. But I'm sure other people just want to raise an error.

I manually do the thing where I check the rate limit and set sleeps until the reset time.

[bkeepers]

I would love to see all our clients have built-in support for throttling / rate limiting.

Here's a discussion on node-github with an example of what @probot does for throttling.

[mirsaeedi]

I just found this thread. I created a simple library to add support for throttling and rate limiting to octokit.net. I decided to introduce my library here in the hope of being useful for somebody else.