Bug Description
When GitHub API requests hit rate limits (429 or secondary throttling responses), Scrum Helper does not recover gracefully. The report/repo fetch flow can stop progressing and leave the user in a stuck state until they manually retry later.
Steps to Reproduce
- Configure Scrum Helper with a GitHub account/token that is near or over API limits.
- Enable options that trigger multiple GitHub calls (for example: repo filtering and commit fetching).
- Click Generate (or trigger repo fetch repeatedly in a short time).
- Observe that once rate limiting is hit, the request flow fails and the UI does not reliably recover on its own.
Expected Behavior
When rate limiting occurs, the extension should:
- Detect rate-limit responses clearly.
- Show a user-friendly message (including when retry may be possible).
- Retry safely with backoff, or fail gracefully without leaving the UI stuck.
Actual Behavior
- Requests fail due to rate limiting.
- The fetch/report flow may become stalled or appear hung.
- Recovery often requires manual user action (refresh/retry later), with limited actionable feedback.
Additional Context
- This is impactful for users in org/shared-token environments where API quota is consumed quickly.
- The issue causes intermittent failures and poor UX during normal report generation.
- Handling both classic rate-limit headers and secondary rate-limit behavior would improve reliability.
Contribution Checklist
Bug Description
When GitHub API requests hit rate limits (
429or secondary throttling responses), Scrum Helper does not recover gracefully. The report/repo fetch flow can stop progressing and leave the user in a stuck state until they manually retry later.Steps to Reproduce
Expected Behavior
When rate limiting occurs, the extension should:
Actual Behavior
Additional Context
Contribution Checklist