secondary error: process_ossf_dependency_metrics Error: local variable \'required_output\' referenced before assignment

[cdolfi]

On our instance we have gotten 2000+ of this error since core has been unblocked

Exception:

<MaybeEncodingError: Error sending result: ''(1, <ExceptionInfo: MetadataException("local variable 'required_output' referenced before assignment | Additional metadata: An error occurred while generating the scorecard: local variable 'required_output' referenced before assignment")>, None)''. Reason: ''PicklingError("Can't pickle <class 'augur.tasks.util.metadata_exception.MetadataException'>: it's not the same object as augur.tasks.util.metadata_exception.MetadataException")''.>

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/billiard/pool.py", line 366, in workloop put((READY, (job, i, result, inqW_fd))) File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/billiard/queues.py", line 366, in put self.send_payload(ForkingPickler.dumps(obj)) File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/billiard/reduction.py", line 56, in dumps cls(buf, protocol).dump(obj) billiard.pool.MaybeEncodingError: Error sending result: ''(1, <ExceptionInfo: MetadataException("local variable 'required_output' referenced before assignment | Additional metadata: An error occurred while generating the scorecard: local variable 'required_output' referenced before assignment")>, None)''. Reason: ''PicklingError("Can't pickle <class 'augur.tasks.util.metadata_exception.MetadataException'>: it's not the same object as augur.tasks.util.metadata_exception.MetadataException")''.

[MoralCode]

Was this happening at all before #3012 got merged?

I would be curious to see if #3076 fixes this too