ossf / ossf/allstar

Add retry to transport

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enhancement help wanted
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Description

We get 502 and 504 occasionally from GitHub. These should be retried.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the transport implementation used for GitHub requests. Done means 502 and 504 responses are retried; the issue does not name a file, entry point, or test, so the intended retry behavior and verification approach need to be established first.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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