Thank you, contributors action doesn't render all contributions

[nikelborm]

I'm not sure of the bug cause, and it might be just a misconfiguration that might have already been fixed, but still, if it's not, I'm going to post here the link to another issue I opened in github/contributors action repo: #392. The issue is specifically related to MDN, as it is the only instance of contributors action I've interacted with.

Example of broken behavior №1

MDN GitHub org discussion #861: Thank you contributors! (Nov 25)

Links showing my (@nikelborm) contributions in that November:

• Commits inside mdn/content PR #41956
• The link of the same form as the one rendered by Contributors Action into MDN discussion #861:
  https://github.com/mdn/content/commits?author=nikelborm&since=2025-11-01&until=2025-11-30

Example of broken behavior №2

MDN GitHub org discussion #865: Thank you contributors! (Dec 25)

Links showing my (@nikelborm) contributions in that December:

• Commits inside mdn/content PR #42334
• The link of the same form as the one rendered by Contributors Action into MDN discussion #865:
  https://github.com/mdn/content/commits?author=nikelborm&since=2025-12-01&until=2025-12-31

Example of finally working behavior

MDN GitHub org discussion #867: Thank you contributors! (Jan 26)

Links showing my (@nikelborm) contributions in that January:

• Commits inside mdn/content PR #42623, Commits inside PR #42624
• The link rendered by Contributors Action into MDN discussion #867:
  https://github.com/mdn/content/commits?author=nikelborm&since=2026-01-01&until=2026-01-31

To Reproduce

Source code of MDN's GitHub Action workflow (contributors.yml), which renders these discussions

Runs of that workflow (contributors.yml)

Additional context

I'm not posting this because I'm upset that my contributions were not acknowledged. I'm posting this because many other people might not have been acknowledged as well.

And I understand the bug might have been fixed, hence it's finally started to render me, but it might not be, and the fact I finally appeared may just be flaky luck.

My hypotheses of these flaky situations:

1. Me, who happened to be on the last pages of pagination, and the initial script fetches only the first N
2. The script that fetches pages with data improperly handles failures, such as Rate limiting or other issues, and just silently continues without failing early or retrying.
3. Too slow indexing of PRs in the search API (seems unlikely)
4. Some problems related to the introduction of semantic search on GitHub

[nikelborm]

The bug was confirmed.
Should be fixed by github-community-projects/contributors#409