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Closes #3534

Summary

  • Serialize Maint 68 and Maint 71 stable-PR writers with one repository-scoped concurrency group.
  • Queue up to 100 pending writer runs instead of cancelling an earlier pending refresh or lifecycle pass.
  • Document the writer boundary and add a production-config-bound final-read-to-PATCH interleaving regression.

Scope

  • Maint 68 stable branch/body publication
  • Maint 71 review request, lifecycle body, merge, and cleanup writes
  • Local actionlint compatibility for the newly supported GitHub queue property

Tasks

  • Use the identical selector-independent concurrency group in both workflows.
  • Preserve non-cancelling queued execution.
  • Add a deterministic regression for a Maint 68 write queued after the Maint 71 final identity read.
  • Document recovery after partial or cancelled writer runs.

Acceptance Criteria

  • python3 -m pytest -q tests/workflows/test_sync_delivery_liveness.py and seven adjacent sync-contract tests pass (12 passed).
  • Deliberately partitioning Maint 71 onto a different group makes the named interleaving regression fail; restoring the shared group makes it pass.
  • Repository-allowlisted actionlint accepts both changed workflows, both YAML files parse, template sync reports no drift, and strict template completeness passes.
  • Evidence is captured in this PR checks and the opener run memory.

Source: Issue #3534

Closes #3534

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  • Reliability
    • Consumer repository sync runs now share a repository-wide queue, preventing overlapping updates from interfering with each other. Runs wait rather than canceling an in-progress run, and queued runs re-check delivery state before continuing.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the maintenance guide with details about sync run coordination and recovery from partial updates.

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Maint 68 and Maint 71 now share a repository-scoped GitHub Actions concurrency group. Runs queue without cancellation. The maintenance guide and tests describe and check the shared writer lock and state reconciliation.

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Consumer sync writer serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure the shared writer group
.github/workflows/maint-68-sync-consumer-repos.yml, .github/workflows/maint-71-merge-sync-prs.yml, .github/actionlint-allowlist.txt
Both workflows use the same repository-scoped concurrency group, disable cancellation, and set queue: max. The actionlint allowlist suppresses the warning for the queue key.
Document and test writer serialization
docs/ops/CONSUMER_REPO_MAINTENANCE.md, tests/workflows/test_sync_delivery_liveness.py
The guide documents the shared writer interval and state reconciliation. Tests check the group settings and model one writer waiting for the other to release the lock.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  participant Scheduler as GitHub Actions scheduler
  participant Maint71 as Maint 71
  participant State as Durable delivery state
  participant Maint68 as Maint 68
  Scheduler->>Maint71: Grant shared concurrency group
  Maint71->>State: Read state and perform writer lifecycle
  Maint71->>Scheduler: Release shared concurrency group
  Scheduler->>Maint68: Grant shared concurrency group
  Maint68->>State: Re-read state and reconcile updates
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The workflows appear mergeable, but update the operator guide to explain full-queue cancellations and the serialization now in place.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing races between stable sync PR writers.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#3534] requires serialization across Maint 71 selectors and preservation of the existing review-safety contract. Both workflows now use the same repository-scoped concurrency group, set `cancel…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The workflow, documentation, allowlist, and test changes all support the writer-serialization objective in [#3534]. Maint 68 is included to prevent a related writer from crossing the same stable-PR mu…
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cancel-in-progress: true
group: consumer-sync-stable-pr-writers-${{ github.repository }}
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P1 Badge Remove the unsupported concurrency queue key

GitHub Actions does not define queue in the workflow-level concurrency schema: local actionlint 1.7.10 reports this as an unexpected key, while GitHub's concurrency documentation permits “at most one running and one pending job” and replaces an existing pending run. Adding the diagnostic to the allowlist only hides the local error; it cannot make GitHub accept either changed workflow or retain 100 pending writers. This also conflicts with the repository's current topology warning in docs/ci/WORKFLOWS.md:225 that concurrency is not a lossless queue, so the stable-writer serialization needs a supported durable queue/dispatcher rather than this key.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L20-L27

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🟡 Minor · Update the obsolete serialization follow-up. · CONSUMER_REPO_MAINTENANCE.md:698-700

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Update the obsolete serialization follow-up.

The new shared group holds Maint 68 and Maint 71 runs across their writes. This later passage still says cross-workflow serialization is a follow-up and presents a Maint 68 rotation as an unresolved race. Replace that passage with the current writer boundary; retain the exact-head guards as protection against other drift.

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In @docs/ops/CONSUMER_REPO_MAINTENANCE.md around lines 698 - 700, Update the
writer-boundary passage in the Maint 68/71 maintenance documentation to describe
the shared group serializing both workflows across their writes, and remove the
obsolete claim that cross-workflow serialization is follow-up work or that Maint
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- Around line 574-576: Update the lifecycle guidance beginning “Runs queue
instead of cancelling one another” to state that GitHub cancels additional runs
when 100 runs are pending in the concurrency group, and clarify that operators
should rerun the normal selector when a writer is cancelled at that limit.

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In @docs/ops/CONSUMER_REPO_MAINTENANCE.md:
- Around line 698-700: Update the writer-boundary passage in the Maint 68/71
maintenance documentation to describe the shared group serializing both
workflows across their writes, and remove the obsolete claim that cross-workflow
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State the pending-queue limit.

When 100 runs are pending in this group, GitHub cancels additional runs. Qualify “Runs queue instead of cancelling one another” with that limit so operators know when a cancelled writer needs recovery. (docs.github.com)

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Addressed both active review findings in 51168f7:

  • removed the unsupported concurrency.queue key and its actionlint suppression while retaining the shared repository-wide Maint 68/Maint 71 writer group;
  • documented the supported one-running/one-pending replacement semantics, persisted-handoff reconciliation, and explicit immutable-input replay for a request displaced before persistence;
  • replaced the obsolete Maint 71: serialize exact-head review requests across selectors #3534 follow-up note and strengthened the production-YAML-bound serialization/recovery contract tests.

Validation: deliberate group partition failed the exact named regression as expected; restored run passed. Focused Python: 16 passed. Focused JavaScript: 137 passed. Native actionlint passed both workflows. Template sync/completeness, Ruff, and git diff --check passed. Both prior threads are now outdated; fresh exact-head CI is in progress.

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