Strategy to deal with rate limiting

[fabulous-gopher]

From @sdboyer on January 23, 2017 20:49

Github repositories with popular projects are going to be (already, really) subject to rate limiting. We need a general strategy for working around this.

Copied from original issue: sdboyer/gps#150

[sdboyer]

now that the FAQ has instructions for incorporating credentials, i'm gonna close this.