Apps: Increased API Limits for GitHub and OAuth apps

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Summary
GitHub Enterprise accounts in github.com will receive higher API rate limits for both GitHub and OAuth Apps.

Intended Outcome
API rate limiting is painful when it interrupts the business of shipping software. We want to make sure the API is available to your business and your third party applications at the busiest times.

How will it work?
OAuth Apps will see an increase to 15,000 API calls per hour, from 5,000 API calls per hour. GitHub Apps on organizations with many users and lots of repositories currently have a hard maximum of 12,500 API calls per hour, which will also be raised to 15,000 per hour.

To receive the higher limit, the API call must come from a GitHub App installed on an organization or repository under a GitHub Enterprise subscription. It also applies to an OAuth App authorized to access repositories on organization with a GitHub Enterprise subscription plan, where the user is also part of that organization.

Higher API limits do not apply to OAuth Apps authorized on individual user accounts, and only apply to API requests on organization resources. Higher API limits do not apply to personal access tokens, or PATs. Higher API limits do not apply to unauthenticated requests. Higher API limits do not apply to abuse rate limits or secondary rate limits, which exist to protect GitHub services.