Add checkpoint feature to find_inactive_members.rb

[asendia]

Script find_inactive_members.rb sometimes breaks while parsing large organization either caused by timeout or connection error.
Checkpoint flag --checkpoint helps by storing Octokit API responses as json files in data/, so that during re-run it will first try to use stored json files instead of calling Github API from the beginning.

[spier]

Hi @asendia. I like this idea, and I have run into the problem that you are describing myself.

What help do you need to get this PR over the finish line? Do you need a review, or something else?

[jonico]

I would also support this change and merge it once it has been tested by somebody else like @spier . I resolved the conflicts to upstream to the best of my knowledge already.

[spier]

I will try this out locally, and leave comments on this PR.

[spier]

Curious why you added this configuration?

[asendia]

Hi @spier, thank you for taking your time to review my PR. IIRC, the default values for both request.open_timeout and timeout are 60s. I adjusted the value since it was taking a lot of time for me to retry when it failed.
I used this script in conjunction with bash script (I forget the exact script):

while true; do ruby find_inactive_members.rb; sleep 30; done

[spier]

I was wondering if instead of creating a custom caching solution, one could also use something like http://octokit.github.io/octokit.rb/#Caching instead? Don't have time right now to try it unfortunately, but maybe over the weekend.

[asendia]

I was wondering if instead of creating a custom caching solution, one could also use something like http://octokit.github.io/octokit.rb/#Caching instead? Don't have time right now to try it unfortunately, but maybe over the weekend.

I am not too familiar with ruby as you can see from the code in my PR 🙇

My reasons:

1. If we use eTag based cache it will still call github API during retry and it will still eat the request bandwidth.
2. Does that cache persist after the script closes? When I used this script I experienced few numbers of unknown errors that made the script force closed.

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