ci: T4748: add a small delay to the PR title check to ensure that it gets a complete, finalized PR object from GitHub

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/check-pr-title-and-commit-messages.py b/scripts/check-pr-title-and-commit-messages.py
index 07540b22c..1d4a3cfe3 100755
--- a/scripts/check-pr-title-and-commit-messages.py
+++ b/scripts/check-pr-title-and-commit-messages.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import re
 import sys
+import time
 
 import requests
 from pprint import pprint
@@ -27,6 +28,13 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         print("Please specify pull request URL!")
         sys.exit(1)
 
+    # There seems to be a race condition that causes this scripts to receive
+    # an incomplete PR object that is missing certain fields,
+    # which causes temporary CI failures that require re-running the script
+    #
+    # It's probably better to add a small delay to prevent that
+    time.sleep(5)
+
     # Get the pull request object
     pr = requests.get(sys.argv[1]).json()
     if "title" not in pr: