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There is no view of how often CI fails or slows down over time, so this runs a weekly summary by calling the shared workflow in forms-deploy. It is a dry run for now: the digest goes to the job summary, not Slack.
A hung job otherwise runs for GitHub's six hour default. Recent runs finish in under a minute, so 15 minutes only catches hangs.
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Trello card: https://trello.com/c/jPeqHHPu/772-improve-the-observability-of-our-github-workflows
There is no view of how often CI fails or slows down over time. This adds a weekly "CI digest" workflow: how often this repo's workflows failed in the last week compared with the previous 12 weeks, which jobs and specs failed, and how long runs take. It calls the shared workflow added in govuk-forms/forms-deploy#2365, where the digest is described in full.
It is a dry run for now. Each run writes the digest to its job summary and nothing is posted to Slack until we have seen a few weeks of output. Going live is a one-line change in forms-deploy, with nothing to change here.
It also sets
timeout-minuteson every job that runs on a runner, so a hung job fails fast instead of running for up to six hours. The limits are generous and well above the observed run times, so they only catch hangs. Jobs that only call a reusable workflow cannot set one; their limits come from forms-deploy. Once govuk-forms/forms-deploy#2332 merges, the shared workflow lint fails any job that has none.Earlier commits on this branch called the shared workflows from a forms-deploy branch, and those runs passed; they can be found in this branch's Actions history. The digest only runs from the default branch, so its first run in Actions will be after merge.
Before merging
Posting to Slack needs the org secret
SLACK_WEBHOOK_GOVUK_FORMS_DEPLOYMENTSto be available to this repo. That is only needed once the digest goes live, not to merge this.Things to consider when reviewing