covr::codecov() times out on GHA occasionally

[pat-s]

I am using covr::codecov() in 30+ repos daily and occasionally I see upload timeouts as in https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3misc/runs/737104888?check_suite_focus=true#step:16:167.

This is quite annoying since it may happen multiple times a day, drawing attention to the build for no reason.

Is this within the scope of {covr} or {httr}? Or completely off to GHA?

[jimhester]

I am not sure there is a lot we can do, though potentially #428 might help the situation by retrying the upload.

One thing you could do is use the equivalent of Rscript -e 'covr::codevov()' || true so that even if the covr upload fails the step still turns a success exit status.

[pat-s]

Thanks. Enforcing {covr} dev for now and observing how that goes.