From 73fa85f54f502e9365ee7824786876efc091c9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Copilot <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 18:12:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Retry transient failures in star history generation (#12479)

* Initial plan

* Retry transient star history API failures

Co-authored-by: chrislusf <1543151+chrislusf@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: chrislusf <1543151+chrislusf@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/scripts/star_history.py      | 26 +++++++++-
 .github/scripts/test_star_history.py | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .github/scripts/test_star_history.py

diff --git a/.github/scripts/star_history.py b/.github/scripts/star_history.py
index fa61a8bcd7..d6616607d5 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/star_history.py
+++ b/.github/scripts/star_history.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ logs a warning rather than under-reporting.
 import json
 import os
 import sys
+import time
+import urllib.error
 import urllib.request
 from datetime import datetime
 
@@ -22,6 +24,28 @@ REPO = "seaweedfs/seaweedfs"
 TOKEN = os.environ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
 OUT = os.environ.get("OUT", "note/star_history.svg")
 PAGE_CAP = 400  # GitHub's hard limit on stargazer pagination
+REQUEST_ATTEMPTS = 5
+RETRYABLE_STATUS_CODES = {429, 500, 502, 503, 504}
+
+
+def open_url(req):
+    for attempt in range(REQUEST_ATTEMPTS):
+        try:
+            return urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30)
+        except urllib.error.HTTPError as error:
+            if error.code not in RETRYABLE_STATUS_CODES or attempt == REQUEST_ATTEMPTS - 1:
+                raise
+            retry_after = error.headers.get("Retry-After")
+            try:
+                delay = min(float(retry_after), 60) if retry_after else 2**attempt
+            except ValueError:
+                delay = 2**attempt
+            error.close()
+        except urllib.error.URLError:
+            if attempt == REQUEST_ATTEMPTS - 1:
+                raise
+            delay = 2**attempt
+        time.sleep(delay)
 
 
 def fetch_stargazers():
@@ -38,7 +62,7 @@ def fetch_stargazers():
                 "User-Agent": "seaweedfs-star-history",
             },
         )
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
+        with open_url(req) as resp:
             batch = json.load(resp)
         if not batch:
             break
diff --git a/.github/scripts/test_star_history.py b/.github/scripts/test_star_history.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b053d0ee85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/test_star_history.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import importlib.util
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+import sys
+import types
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
+from urllib.error import HTTPError
+
+
+def load_star_history():
+    matplotlib = types.ModuleType("matplotlib")
+    matplotlib.use = lambda backend: None
+    pyplot = types.ModuleType("matplotlib.pyplot")
+    dates = types.ModuleType("matplotlib.dates")
+    dates.AutoDateLocator = object
+    dates.DateFormatter = object
+    modules = {
+        "matplotlib": matplotlib,
+        "matplotlib.pyplot": pyplot,
+        "matplotlib.dates": dates,
+    }
+    with patch.dict(sys.modules, modules), patch.dict(os.environ, {"GITHUB_TOKEN": "test"}):
+        path = Path(__file__).with_name("star_history.py")
+        spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("star_history", path)
+        module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+        spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+star_history = load_star_history()
+
+
+class StarHistoryTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def http_error(self, code):
+        return HTTPError("https://api.github.com", code, "error", {}, None)
+
+    @patch.object(star_history.time, "sleep")
+    @patch.object(star_history.urllib.request, "urlopen")
+    def test_retries_server_error(self, urlopen, sleep):
+        response = object()
+        urlopen.side_effect = [self.http_error(500), response]
+
+        result = star_history.open_url(object())
+
+        self.assertIs(result, response)
+        self.assertEqual(urlopen.call_count, 2)
+        sleep.assert_called_once_with(1)
+
+    @patch.object(star_history.time, "sleep")
+    @patch.object(star_history.urllib.request, "urlopen")
+    def test_does_not_retry_non_transient_http_error(self, urlopen, sleep):
+        error = self.http_error(404)
+        urlopen.side_effect = error
+
+        with self.assertRaises(HTTPError):
+            star_history.open_url(object())
+
+        urlopen.assert_called_once()
+        sleep.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch.object(star_history.time, "sleep")
+    @patch.object(star_history.urllib.request, "urlopen")
+    def test_stops_after_retry_limit(self, urlopen, sleep):
+        urlopen.side_effect = self.http_error(500)
+
+        with self.assertRaises(HTTPError):
+            star_history.open_url(object())
+
+        self.assertEqual(urlopen.call_count, star_history.REQUEST_ATTEMPTS)
+        self.assertEqual(sleep.call_count, star_history.REQUEST_ATTEMPTS - 1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()