additions from backlog and removals because of unclear license status that could not be resolved and a bit of gitlab statistics

code/utils/osg_gitlab.py

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+"""
+Everything specific to the Gitlab API (via Python GitLab https://python-gitlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
+"""
+
+from dateutil import parser
+from gitlab import Gitlab
+
+def normalize_repo_name(repo):
+    """
+    Bring repo to style xxx/yyy
+    """
+    prefix = 'https://gitlab.com/'
+    if repo.startswith(prefix):
+        repo = repo[len(prefix):]
+    suffix = '.git'
+    if repo.endswith(suffix):
+        repo = repo[:-len(suffix)]
+    return repo
+
+
+def retrieve_repo_info(repos, token=None):
+    """
+
+    :param repos:
+    :param token:
+    :return:
+    """
+    single_repo = isinstance(repos, str)
+    if single_repo:
+        repos = (repos,)
+    result = []
+    gl = Gitlab('https://gitlab.com')
+    for repo in repos:
+        repo = normalize_repo_name(repo)
+        # get project
+        p = gl.projects.get(repo)
+        e = {'description': p.description, 'created': parser.parse(p.created_at), 'contributors': p.repository_contributors(), 'forks': p.forks_count, 'name': p.name, 'last modified': parser.parse(p.last_activity_at), 'stars': p.star_count, 'languages': p.languages()}
+        result.append(e)
+    if single_repo:
+        result = result[0]
+    return result