202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry

[ntwb]

Hi, I've been getting the following error for the past couple of days, I originally thought it was because I was hitting the GitHub API limit for the API key I'm using but I no longer think thats the case (you see an actual message from GitHub telling you you hit the API limit for the day)

Here is what I'm seeing:

This 1st part has taken a couple of days to get past the GitHub API limit and is now cached and appears to work as expected:

I160616 22:28:43.982757 cmd/fetch.go:53  fetching GitHub data for repository repo/repo

I160616 22:28:43.983038 fetch/query.go:258  querying stargazers of repository repo/repo
*** 1,687 stargazers

I160616 22:28:45.206165 fetch/query.go:278  querying user info for each of 1,687 stargazers...
*** user info for 1,687 stargazers

I160616 22:28:45.926333 fetch/query.go:292  querying followers for each of 1,687 stargazers...
*** 68,389 followers (43,406 unique) for 1,687 stargazers

I160616 22:28:48.995858 fetch/query.go:320  querying starred repos for each of 1,687 stargazers...
*** 363,191 starred repos (90,747 unique) for 1,687 stargazers

I160616 22:29:43.917686 fetch/query.go:352  querying subscribed repos for each of 1,687 stargazers...
*** 85,739 subscribed repos (80,406 unique) for 1,687 stargazers

Now, this is what I see everytime I get to the point of retrieving the commits for each stargazer:

I160616 22:29:58.653527 fetch/query.go:384  querying contributions to subscribed repos for each of 1,687 stargazers...
*** 5,432 commits from 360 repos (376 qual, 2,331 total) for 24 stargazers
E160616 22:30:01.925974 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:03.852227 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:05.772839 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:07.251432 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:08.789207 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:11.659565 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:13.708287 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:17.708606 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:20.987420 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry
E160616 22:30:25.068810 fetch/fetch.go:117  202 (Accepted) HTTP response; backoff and retry

Occasionally it will throw the following:

E160616 22:30:26.070563 fetch/fetch.go:127  unable to fetch "https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/stats/contributors"

Apologies, if anything here is n00bish, I installed Go for the 1st time to play with this repo 😄

[spencerkimball]

No, not noobish. I've gotten similar errors. Something weird going on with GitHub's API Not sure what the cause is...I mostly just ignored them.

[ntwb]

Thanks, I've fired it up again and I'll let it run and see what happens 😬

[DrMegavolt]

I believe Github just don't have this data right now. so it says 202 "I got it, working now, pls try later" and handling is correct - schedule retry