GitHubReleasesInfoProvider additional functionality - raise a warning if a repo has been archived or disabled.

[paul-cossey]

Describe the problem

More a feature request than a problem... raising following a conversation in MacAdmins Slack

GitHubReleasesInfoProvider does not raise a warning or error if a repo has been archived or disabled. If the media is still available, recipes will complete successfully, and admins have no way of knowing the project state unless there is a manual check.

Preferences contents
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AutoPkg output
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Expected behaviour

If GitHubReleasesInfoProvider detects that a repo is either "archived": true, or "disabled": true, it should raise a warning to inform the admin that investigation is need.

Version (please complete the following information):

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• AutoPkg Version: N/A

[nmcspadden]

So I'd propose:

1. if the repo is archived or disabled, the processor should fail by default;
2. allow an input variable to override that behavior and ignore the archive/disable flag and use it anyway

It's still potentially useful to run an autopkg recipe against an old repo, just to simplify the effort of manually importing a software release from it. So admins who wish to do so can intentionally opt-in via their override.

[paul-cossey]

Thanks, Nick.

That would be ideal for us.