BUG: All contributors bot appears to be broken or down or our json is wrong

[lwasser]

It seems to think our JSON is malformed, but when I dropped it into a linter, it's valid. So either I'm missing something, or there is a bug with the bot (which also might not be maintained anymore).

all-contributors/allcontributors.org#835

and see error here:

but the json looks valid to me and in the linters i drop it in.

[sneakers-the-rat]

yeah, weird error. it must be an error in the json that it's generating for the PR, because position 383 in the unminified JSON would be the position that it adds "code" for ericnw like you had in the error. looking at the cli, no idea why it would be trying to add an } there

[lwasser]

Ah, your angle on the issue makes more sense — the bot is trying to add a } rather than finding an issue in our JSON because the JSON validates in every linter/validation tool I've tried. AND it can also add a new person. So it's probably specific to adding a new "contrib type".

I did email one of the maintainers yesterday to better understand what the plans are (if any) to maintain the bot. I suspect it's no longer maintained. I have this hope that they respond and maybe we can help them find new maintainers!

[lwasser]

Closing this!! we've fixed a lot of bugs over in all contributors and it seems to be working now.