Gitlab job fix - added backoff to retry on failure (#311)

pyproject.toml

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ otlp = ["opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc"]
 jaeger = ["opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift"]
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
+backoff = ">=2.1.2,<2.2.0"
 flake8 = "~3.7"
 mypy = "0.971"
 black = {version = "22.6.0", python = ">=3.7.0"}

scripts/create_gh_release.py

@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 from os import path
+from time import sleep
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError
 
+import backoff
 import click
 import keepachangelog
 from github_release import gh_release_create
@@ -55,6 +58,7 @@ def print_release_details(**kwargs):
     default=True,
     help="Print out the release details instead of actually creating one",
 )
+@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, HTTPError, max_time=60)
 def main(dry_run):
     versions = get_versions()
 
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ def main(dry_run):
     action = print_release_details
     if not dry_run:
         action = gh_release_create
+    sleep(5)
     action(
         repo_name="signalfx/splunk-otel-python",
         tag_name=git_tag,