Handle missing member information gracefully (Specifically at project creation time)

[vikasrohit]

Currently, our write operations in project service, relies on member api to respond in time and correctly which makes it very tightly coupled with those services. It makes Connect unstable when member api is down or does not have the required data (newly created users are some time missing from _search endpoint which fails the project creation request e.g https://help.topcoder.com/hc/requests/29400).

Although, it is very critical to have member data while creating a project, we might explore the possibility of having minimum information when member api is not working fine or not having the required data. We may augment (adhoc when someone reports the missing information in a project or identify an automated way to fix such cases) the required data later on when the data is available.

fyi @RishiRajSahu @RiteshTC @acshields

[vikasrohit]

@RishiRajSahu @acshields @RiteshTC I have applied a hotfix to the production which ignores the error in indexing the project in ES in case of missing member details. Hopefully, it should not cause any blocker issues. One of the known thing ,that is not going to work for projects created even when there was error in fetching member details, is that it won't send any Slack notification when project status is changed because it needs member details to create the Slack notifications.

[vikasrohit]

One more thing, users who created project the situation mentioned above, would still be shown as follows (because we still don't have their profile data coming from member api):

[vikasrohit]

Closing the issue as it is working fine as mentioned in previous comments.