> and this comment suggests it wasn't GitHub doing the rate limiting after all
That comment is from someone other than the ticket filer who was seeing another issue even after sending the GitHub token. It was this second issue that wasn't caused by GitHub rate limiting -- the original one was.
> It was downloading a package template (which one doesn't tend to do 60 times per hour).
I've personally had Stack-related GitHub API rate limiting delay builds by at least an hour due to extreme slowness. So whatever the rate limits are, Stack occasionally hits them.
That comment is from someone other than the ticket filer who was seeing another issue even after sending the GitHub token. It was this second issue that wasn't caused by GitHub rate limiting -- the original one was.
> It was downloading a package template (which one doesn't tend to do 60 times per hour).
I've personally had Stack-related GitHub API rate limiting delay builds by at least an hour due to extreme slowness. So whatever the rate limits are, Stack occasionally hits them.