In case you care:
GitHub confirms that this race condition can definitely happen. They don't
think it's a regression -- they think that a change they made a few weeks ago
simply made this behavior observable (at least in some cases).
They're talking through it internally, but apparently this i
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I have confirmed that there is a fun GitHub race condition that is sometimes
causing the commit email checker and the signed-off-by checker to sometimes
appear to hang (i.e., be stuck in the yellow dot). I have pushed up a fix;
hopefully this will address the issue.
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