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CI test run can be flaky due to exceeding GitHub API limits

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, python
Domain
api, ci-cd, testing

Research direction

Start with tests/test_github.py::test_integration and the osgithub.github.GithubAPIException shown in the workflow log. Trace how the test accesses the GitHub API and how rate-limit failures are handled; done means the CI test has a reliable, defined outcome when the API limit is reached.

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Description

A workflow run failed with this in the logs:

FAILED tests/test_github.py::test_integration - osgithub.github.GithubAPIException: {"message": "API rate limit exceeded for 74.249.5.177. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)", "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rate-limiting"}

It got cleared up when re-running the failed job, but this is potentially an irritation in future.

(I guess this happens when previous runners on that IP have used the GitHub API enough to encounter the rate limit.)

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