Use of deprecated authentication method in GitHub API

[npch]

We received the following warning about use of a deprecated parameter:

On February 6th, 2020 at 16:27 (UTC) your application (lowFAT) used an access token (with the User-Agent python-requests/2.21.0) as part of a query parameter to access an endpoint through the GitHub API.

https://api.github.com/user

Please use the Authorization HTTP header instead as using the access_token query parameter is deprecated.

Depending on your API usage, we'll be sending you this email reminder once every 3 days for each token and User-Agent used in API calls made on your behalf.
Just one URL that was accessed with a token and User-Agent combination will be listed in the email reminder, not all.

Visit https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-11-05-deprecated-passwords-and-authorizations-api/#authenticating-using-query-parameters for more information.

[jag1g13]

This is in the process of being fixed upstream - I'll keep an eye on this and update as soon as they release.

See python-social-auth/social-core#428

[jag1g13]

@rainsworth @shoaibsufi for status update

The upstream fix has been stalled for a couple of weeks now - a discussion has begun about providing more direct support to the project, which appears to have only one maintainer.

The deprecation timeline says that the current authentication method will stop working temporarily on 30th September and 28th October, then permanently from 13th November this year.

This gives us a reasonable amount of time for this to be fixed, but if still not fixed upstream by then, I can put in a workaround at our end.