Retry not working on challenge creation

[jmgasper]

The challenge API call to create a challenge fails quite regularly, and what we are seeing is that the retries don't seem to be working either, leading to a loop over and over again.

We need to investigate why the retries are failing:

[jmgasper]

Additional details added:

so I’m looking at a retry failure and this line: https://github.com/topcoder-platform/topcoder-x-processor/blob/develop/services/IssueService.js#L120
seems to be popping out the error

if (dbIssue && dbIssue.status === 'challenge_creation_pending')
when we call ensureChallengeExists()

lazybaer [1:56 AM]
this seems bad https://github.com/topcoder-platform/topcoder-x-processor/blob/develop/services/IssueService.js#L71
setTimeout can be funky sometimes…