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Stop an unrelated comment cancelling a suite in flight - #46

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Found on the first real use of the comment triggered suite, in #45.

/run-tests was posted at 20:03:10 and the gate started a run. CodeRabbit's review summary landed at 20:03:24, fourteen seconds later. That comment is an issue_comment event too, so it started a second run of this workflow, which skipped every job, as intended. What was not intended is that it joined the same concurrency group first and cancelled the suite.

The pull request was left with Tests Verified red, reading "Integration suite was cancelled", for a run nobody cancelled.

What

The group keys on the pull request number only for comments that actually ask for a run. Anything else gets a group of its own, so it cancels nothing. A second /run-tests still supersedes the first, which is the behaviour the group exists for.

group: >-
  ${{ github.workflow }}-${{
  startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-tests')
  && github.event.issue.number || github.run_id }}

Note on testing this

Same constraint as #42: an issue_comment workflow only ever runs the default branch's copy of itself, so this cannot be exercised from its own branch. #45 is still open and will demonstrate it once this is on main.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved test run coordination so authorized /run-tests requests cancel previous runs for the same pull request.
    • Prevented unrelated or unauthorized comment-triggered requests from canceling active test runs.
    • Prevented canceled test runs from being reported as failures, preserving pending or newer results.
    • Reduced duplicate or conflicting test activity, helping ensure the latest authorized test request receives priority.

The concurrency group keyed on the pull request number for every issue_comment
event, and every comment on a pull request fires this workflow, not just the
ones asking for a run. Those runs skip every job, but they joined the group
first, so they cancelled whatever was already running.

Confirmed live on the first real use: CodeRabbit's review summary landed
fourteen seconds after a /run-tests comment and cancelled the suite that comment
had just started, leaving the pull request with a red Tests Verified reading
"Integration suite was cancelled".

A run that is not going to do anything now gets a group of its own, so a second
/run-tests still supersedes the first and nothing else supersedes anything.
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The workflow now applies pull-request concurrency only to authorized suite jobs. The publish job skips cancelled suites while continuing to publish failures, preventing superseded runs from replacing pending or newer statuses.

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Integration test concurrency and publication

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Authorized suite concurrency
.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
The workflow removes workflow-wide concurrency. The authorized suite job now controls pull-request cancellation. Unauthorized requests do not cancel active test runs.
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.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
The publish job skips cancelled suites and continues to report failed suites. The cancelled-result failure branch is removed.

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The workflow now isolates unrelated comments from the pull-request concurrency group while preserving supersession for actual /run-tests requests. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks.

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In @.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml:
- Around line 48-57: Update the concurrency group expression near the workflow’s
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Comment thread .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml Outdated
The first version of this fix keyed the workflow-level group on the comment
body, so a comment that was not `/run-tests` got a group of its own and stopped
cancelling suites. That fixed the case that had just happened and left a worse
one: anybody at all can type `/run-tests`, and a workflow-level group is joined
before any job runs, so an unauthorized comment would still have cancelled a
maintainer's suite. The gate rejecting the commenter a few seconds later is no
help to the twelve minutes already thrown away. CodeRabbit caught it.

Their suggestion was to put the allowlist in the concurrency expression too. The
group moves down onto the suite job instead, which is only reached once the gate
has authorized, so an unauthorized comment skips it and cancels nothing, and the
allowlist stays in one place rather than being restated in an expression that
cannot read it.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml:
- Around line 174-176: Update the publish job’s status POST guard to skip runs
superseded by concurrency cancellation, preventing canceled suites from
overwriting the shared STATUS_CONTEXT; retain the existing path that publishes
status for intentional cancellations, and preserve the broader publish flow for
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Comment thread .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
publish ran on always() and mapped a cancelled suite to a red status. With the
concurrency group now on the suite job, a second /run-tests cancels the first
suite and the first run then carries on to publish failure against the same
head, over the pending status the newer run has already written, or after that
run's own result if the timing falls that way, burying it.

Cancellations no longer publish at all. There are two ways to get one and
neither wants a status from here: a superseded run has a newer one behind it
that will publish, and a person cancelling by hand leaves the pending status
standing, which reads as waiting and blocks the merge. That is the honest
answer, since nothing was proven about the commit either way. CodeRabbit caught
this one too.
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