HTTP 429 Errors During mvn package Due to Raw GitHub URL Access

[luisvenezian]

Hi everyone,

While running mvn clean package -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true for running the first time the Anserini project, I encountered repeated IOException errors related to accessing raw github URLs. Specifically, the error was:

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 429 for URL: [some raw.githubusercontent.com URL]

As far as I can tell, I only executed the mvn build 3–5 times manually, so I was surprised to hit a 429.

Does anyone know if this is a temporary issue that resolves with time, or if there’s a recommended workaround? For example: Should we mirror the topic files locally and avoid repeated remote access?

Any guidance or best practices would be appreciated. Thanks!

[lintool]

@luisvenezian thanks for reporting this... but I've never encountered this error before though...

Anyone else?