stamp is running HEAD on remote server and this serve might be sometimes down, or broken (https://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/current_release/relnotes.txt proved to be pretty unreliable over the last 12 months). The crux here is that this completely block kgsteward, and it cannot perform other (urgen) tasks. Some mechanism should be put in place to avoid the blocking, possibly by defining a new dataset status internally.
stamp is running HEAD on remote server and this serve might be sometimes down, or broken (https://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/current_release/relnotes.txt proved to be pretty unreliable over the last 12 months). The crux here is that this completely block kgsteward, and it cannot perform other (urgen) tasks. Some mechanism should be put in place to avoid the blocking, possibly by defining a new dataset status internally.