Scan can exhaust GitHub REST API rate limit when generating comments

[Mitch Spano]

The scan has no protection against blowing through the GitHub REST API rate limit when many many comments are to be generated.

Writing comments using GitHub REST API...
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/home/runner/work/_actions/mitchspano/sfdx-scan-pull-request/v0.1/dist/index.js:6544
      const error = new requestError.RequestError(toErrorMessage(data), status, {
                    ^

RequestError [HttpError]: Validation Failed: {"resource":"PullRequestReviewComment","code":"abuse","field":"base"}
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/mitchspano/sfdx-scan-pull-request/v0.1/dist/index.js:6544:21
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async writeComments (/home/runner/work/_actions/mitchspano/sfdx-scan-pull-request/v0.1/dist/index.js:7[17](https://github.com/rsoesemann/salesforce-recipes/runs/7617457933?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:18)01:7) {
  status: 4[22](https://github.com/rsoesemann/salesforce-recipes/runs/7617457933?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:23),
  response: {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/rsoesemann/salesforce-recipes/pulls/2/comments',
    status: 422,
    
    ...
    
    data: {
      message: 'Validation Failed',
      errors: [
        {
          resource: 'PullRequestReviewComment',
          code: 'abuse',
          field: 'base'
        }
      ],
      documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/rest'
    }
  },
  request: {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/rsoesemann/salesforce-recipes/pulls/2/comments',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': 'octokit-action.js/4.0.4 octokit-core.js/4.0.4 Node.js/16.13.0 (linux; x64)',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]',
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    },
    body: `{"commit_id":"7e02f10a68b649d3de0042b5e328[59](https://github.com/rsoesemann/salesforce-recipes/runs/7617457933?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:60)315ee38c33","path":"force-app/main/apex-domainbuilder/classes/Voldemort.cls","start_line":80,"start_side":"RIGHT","side":"RIGHT","line":81,"body":"| Engine | Category | Rule | Severity | Type |\\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\\n| pmd | Best Practices | UnusedLocalVariable | 5 | Error |\\n\\n[\\nVariable 'space' defined but not used\\n](https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.47.0/pmd_rules_apex_bestpractices.html#unusedlocalvariable)"}`,
    request: {
      agent: ProxyAgent { promisifiedCallback: [Function (anonymous)] },
      hook: [Function: bound bound register]
    }
  }
}

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/rate-limit

[Nils Schuch]

Maybe not directly the same, but also hitting limits when to much comments are generated:
After following log output: Creating Check Runs using GitHub REST API...
"data": {
"message": "Invalid request.\n\nNo more than 50 items are allowed; 261 were supplied.",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/checks/runs#create-a-check-run"
}