Yeah I managed to work around those former two, mostly by using Task.create instead of Task.init . It's actually the whole bunch of daemons running in the background that takes a long time, not the zipping.

Regarding the second - I'm not doing anything per se. I'm running in offline mode and I'm trying to create a dataset, and this is the error I get...
There is a data object it, but there is no script object attached to it (presumably again because of pytest?)