https://github.com/pypa/pip/actions/runs/3210435710

This triggers a notification if the jobs were auto-cancelled, for example due to concurrency protections.

This has been suggested by @pradyunsg.

Use-case: workflows that run jobs conditionally, depending on the files changed in associated PRs, for example — https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/bbc7021/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L29-L49, using a change detection action like dorny/paths-filter.

GitHub has deprecated the set-output way, so I'm getting warnings in my workflows from alls-green.

Since they provided zero guidance how to fix it, I've written it down myself: https://hynek.me/til/set-output-deprecation-github-actions/

tldr: echo "::set-output name=KEY::VALUE" → echo "KEY=VALUE" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT

Apparently the current implementation does not count for matrix usage, thus not allowing you to ignore failure of one of matrix jobs.

Sadly GHA unfortunate naming makes it harder to even refer to individual job run as from the human point of view each entry inside checks is a job. But from GHA workflow definition that is not exactly the same thing as matrix job-definitions get expanded into multiple job-runs with potential different names.

How can we mark one particular matrix dimension as allowed to fail while still ensuring the the summarizing final "check" job does not fail?

Most projects will avoid using different definitions for each job-run and use matrix for them, as that prevents repeating a huge number of tasks. Thus we do need a practical solution for allowing one matrix-entry to fail.

Hi This is how I added your action to my workflow:

check:
    if: always()
    runs-on: [self-hosted]
    needs:
    - dev_build_int_tests

    steps:
    - name: Decide whether the needed jobs succeeded or failed
      uses: re-actors/[email protected]
      with:
        jobs: ${{ toJSON(needs) }}

And I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 163, in _run_module_as_main
   mod_name, _Error)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 119, in _get_module_details
   code = loader.get_code(mod_name)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pkgutil.py", line 281, in get_code
   self.code = compile(source, self.filename, 'exec')
 File "/opt/actions-runner/_work/_actions/re-actors/alls-green/v1.2.2/src/normalize_needed_jobs_status.py", line 29
   write_lines_to_streams((f'{name}={value}',), (outputs_file,))
                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Could you help me to fix it, please.

Jobs can be cancelled externally, either manually or automatically with an action. Cancelled jobs fall into the "failure" state of this action, and since they are not explicit failures they should be considered as "skipped" in the same way that jobs which are automatically skipped are.

Sorry, maybe I don't understand how this action should work, but I added the check to my workflow, but I didn't get the expected result. Why is the execution status (number 1 in the screenshot) still green?

  check:
    if: always()
    runs-on: [self-hosted]
    needs:
    - dev_build_int_tests

    steps:
    - name: Install python3
      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
      with:
        python-version: '3.10'

    - name: Decide whether the needed jobs succeeded or failed
      uses: re-actors/[email protected]
      with:
        jobs: ${{ toJSON(needs) }}

First of all, love the idea of this action, thanks for maintaining it.

I was thinking about adopting this for https://github.com/di/pip-api/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml which has a somewhat complex (and long) matrix workflow. But based on the example in the readme and discussion in #5, it looks like I need to explicitly list all the jobs by name with needs:, and since the list of jobs is autogenerated, very long and changes frequently, I don't want to do this. Is there any workaround?

Thanks!