Changeset 53947 for trunk/.github/workflows/test-old-branches.yml

Timestamp:

08/26/2022 07:19:11 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

desrosj

Message:

Build/Test Tools: Automatically rerun a workflow the first time it fails.

There are several common reoccurring issues that sometimes cause GitHub Action workflows to fail (connection timeouts to WordPress.org or the Docker container registry, npm install failures, Chromium issues, etc.). Except when there are service level outages, most of these issues can be resolved by simply rerunning the workflow.

This introduces a new step within each of Core’s GitHub Action workflows that attempts to rerun the failed jobs within the workflow that encountered a failure if they are running for the first time. Since a workflow is not allowed to restart itself, a new failed-workflow.yml callable workflow is being introduced.

Other related adjustments in this changeset:

• The actions/github-script 3rd-party action is also now updated to the latest version (v6.2.0).
• A new secret, GHA_WORKFLOW_DISPATCH, has been introduced. This will replace the current one in use (GHA_OLD_BRANCH_DISPATCH) with a less specific name.

Props jorbin, desrosj.
Fixes #56407.

File:

• trunk/.github/workflows/test-old-branches.yml (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/.github/workflows/test-old-branches.yml

@@ -68 +68 @@
     steps:
       - name: Dispatch workflow run
-        uses: actions/github-script@d50f485531ba88479582bc2da03ff424389af5c1 # v6.1.1
+        uses: actions/github-script@c713e510dbd7d213d92d41b7a7805a986f4c5c66 # v6.2.0
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' || github.event.schedule == '0 0 15 * *' || matrix.branch == '6.0' }}
         with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.GHA_OLD_BRANCH_DISPATCH }}
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GHA_WORKFLOW_DISPATCH }}
           script: |
             github.rest.actions.createWorkflowDispatch({