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Zhengchao An 4310b55238 ci: add schedule-failure-issue composite action and wire nightly alerts (#4671)
Scheduled workflow failures previously went unnoticed (15 consecutive red
weekly s3-tests sweeps, silent perf nightly failures). Add a reusable
composite action that opens a tracking issue titled
"[scheduled-failure] <workflow name>" — or appends a comment to the
existing open one (dedupe key = workflow name) — with the run URL, run
attempt, and failed job names, labeled "infrastructure".

Wire it into the scheduled paths of e2e-s3tests, mint, fuzz (nightly) and
performance-ab via a final alert-on-failure job gated by
"always() && github.event_name == 'schedule' &&
contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')", with issues:write scoped to that
job only. e2e-s3tests and mint previously had no permissions key; they now
get workflow-level contents:read, reducing every other job's token.

Add a dispatch-only drill workflow that forces a job failure and runs the
action through the exact consumer wiring, for end-to-end verification.
The ci-7 e2e nightly does not exist yet; it is recorded as a pending
consumer in the action README.

Refs: rustfs/backlog#1149 (ci-8), rustfs/backlog#1155
2026-07-10 20:53:44 +08:00

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# schedule-failure-issue
Opens (or updates) a GitHub issue when a **scheduled** workflow run fails.
This is the single alerting mechanism for all timed pipelines
(rustfs/backlog#1149 ci-8, arbitration G3): scheduled workflows must consume
this action instead of inventing their own notification paths.
## Behavior
- Issue title: `[scheduled-failure] <workflow name>` — the workflow name is
the dedupe key.
- If an **open** issue with that exact title exists, the failure is appended
as a comment; otherwise a new issue is created (labeled `infrastructure` by
default). Closing the issue resets the cycle: the next failure opens a
fresh one.
- The issue body / comment includes the run URL, run attempt, event, ref and
the names of the failed (or timed-out/cancelled) jobs of the current run
attempt.
- Requires `gh` and `jq` on the runner (both preinstalled on GitHub-hosted
runners such as `ubuntu-latest`).
## Usage
Add a final job to the workflow. `always()` is required — without it the job
is skipped when a needed job fails; `contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')`
makes it act only when something actually failed. Scope `issues: write` to
this job only; no other job may gain permissions.
```yaml
alert-on-failure:
name: Alert on scheduled failure
needs: [<the jobs to watch>]
if: always() && github.event_name == 'schedule' && contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
contents: read
issues: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7
- name: Open or update failure-tracking issue
uses: ./.github/actions/schedule-failure-issue
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
```
Notes:
- Upstream jobs that are *cancelled* (e.g. a manually cancelled run) do not
trigger the alert — a human was already looking. Job `timeout-minutes`
expiry surfaces as `failure` and does alert.
- Manual `workflow_dispatch` runs never alert; a human is watching those.
## Current consumers
- `.github/workflows/e2e-s3tests.yml` (weekly full s3-tests sweep)
- `.github/workflows/mint.yml` (weekly multi-SDK mint run)
- `.github/workflows/fuzz.yml` (nightly fuzz corpus jobs)
- `.github/workflows/performance-ab.yml` (nightly warp A/B gate)
- **Pending:** the ci-7 e2e nightly-full workflow does not exist yet
(backlog#1149 ci-7). When it lands, wire it up with the snippet above.
## Drill
`.github/workflows/schedule-failure-alert-drill.yml` is a manual-only
workflow that forces a job failure and runs this action through the exact
consumer wiring. Use it to verify the alert path end to end:
```bash
gh workflow run schedule-failure-alert-drill.yml -R rustfs/rustfs --ref <branch>
```
Run it twice to verify both paths (issue creation, then comment dedupe), and
close the `[scheduled-failure] Schedule Failure Alert Drill` issue afterwards.