On a Playwright cache miss the flag pulled Chromium's system libraries
through apt, spending minutes of the 45-minute review budget on packages
the ubuntu-latest image already ships — and the runner's retries against
the unreachable azure mirror made the step look hung on a live run. If the
image ever drops a required library, Chromium fails to launch with a clear
missing-libraries error; that is the moment to bring the flag back.
validate.yml keeps the flag deliberately: it is the prerelease gate, where
predictability is worth more than minutes.
Issue: #175
User-Visible: no
On a Playwright cache miss the flag pulled Chromium's system libraries
through apt, spending minutes of the 45-minute review budget on packages
the ubuntu-latest image already ships — and the runner's retries against
the unreachable azure mirror made the step look hung on a live run. If the
image ever drops a required library, Chromium fails to launch with a clear
missing-libraries error; that is the moment to bring the flag back.
validate.yml keeps the flag deliberately: it is the prerelease gate, where
predictability is worth more than minutes.
Issue: #175
User-Visible: no
On #150 both spec-review verdicts survived only as issue comments: the
publish step found nothing staged, printed a warning, and exited zero, so
the label moved and the missing artifact went unnoticed until the next
review caught it (#171). A verdict without a document in docs/reviews/ now
fails the run before the label step, preserving the invariant that an
unchanged label means a failed run.
An empty working copy alone is not a failure: the reviewer occasionally
commits the document itself through its app token, bypassing this step
(CODE-REVIEW-150-r1, committer GitHub), so the branch is checked first. A
postcondition verifies the exact expected filename reached the branch, and
the rebase-conflict path no longer exits zero either.
Issue: #171
User-Visible: no
On #150 both spec-review verdicts survived only as issue comments: the
publish step found nothing staged, printed a warning, and exited zero, so
the label moved and the missing artifact went unnoticed until the next
review caught it (#171). A verdict without a document in docs/reviews/ now
fails the run before the label step, preserving the invariant that an
unchanged label means a failed run.
An empty working copy alone is not a failure: the reviewer occasionally
commits the document itself through its app token, bypassing this step
(CODE-REVIEW-150-r1, committer GitHub), so the branch is checked first. A
postcondition verifies the exact expected filename reached the branch, and
the rebase-conflict path no longer exits zero either.
Issue: #171
User-Visible: no
Issue #150 reached a green verdict and then hit two pipeline defects at once.
The review document push came back 403 as github-actions[bot]: the PAT had
died, and checkout's persisted credential quietly took its place — a masked
actor instead of a loud failure. Credentials are no longer persisted, and the
token is now proven alive before the review starts, not after forty minutes of
reviewer work.
Branch selection took the first match alphabetically, and with a spec-era
branch sitting next to the implementation branch that meant the stale one.
The freshest branch by commit date is chosen instead, with a warning naming
every candidate when more than one exists.
Verified against the real #150 branches: the fix branch wins, the warning
fires.
Issue: #114
User-Visible: no
Issue #150 reached a green verdict and then hit two pipeline defects at once.
The review document push came back 403 as github-actions[bot]: the PAT had
died, and checkout's persisted credential quietly took its place — a masked
actor instead of a loud failure. Credentials are no longer persisted, and the
token is now proven alive before the review starts, not after forty minutes of
reviewer work.
Branch selection took the first match alphabetically, and with a spec-era
branch sitting next to the implementation branch that meant the stale one.
The freshest branch by commit date is chosen instead, with a warning naming
every candidate when more than one exists.
Verified against the real #150 branches: the fix branch wins, the warning
fires.
Issue: #114
User-Visible: no
Sergey Matyunin