GitAPI.authenticateWithPassword interface broken, causing git import failures

Ref OOPS-3b4c4a82f341b35ba8fbe4e2b6cf43d4

I have three different projects that are all set to auto import from github - all are failing at the moment with the same type of error message.

Any ideas what is going on?

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/444422972/fossfreedom-arc-gtk-theme-+git-arc-gtk-theme.log

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/444428185/ubuntubudgie-dev-budgie-welcome-+git-budgie-welcome.log

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/444385940/ubuntubudgie-dev-budgie-extras-+git-budgie-extras.log

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 TypeError: authenticateWithPassword() takes at most 0 argument (3
given)

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  Module zope.publisher.publish, line 132, in publish
    result = publication.callObject(request, obj)
  Module lp.services.webapp.publication, line 463, in callObject
    return mapply(ob, request.getPositionalArguments(), request)
  Module zope.publisher.publish, line 84, in mapply
    given))
   - __traceback_info__: <security proxied zope.app.publisher.xmlrpc.metaconfigure.GitAPI instance at 0x7f281a7298d0>
TypeError: authenticateWithPassword() takes at most 0 argument (3 given)