The install-test matrix follows the charts a pull request changes, so a
chart nobody has touched since the forge move carries a green history from
a different runner - and that green says nothing about today. Gitea PR #48
showed what the answer is worth: correcting a comment in 21 charts made
every one of them "changed" and turned the run into the first all-charts
install-test after the move, 19 of 20 matrix charts Ready in 12m41s and
exactly one not (rss-bridge, Gitea #51). By accident.
The install-test job moves into the reusable .github/workflows/
install-test.yml and is called twice: by validate-charts.yml with the
charts a pull request changed, and by the new install-test-all-charts.yml
with all of them. Not copied for the second caller - a second copy is a
second chance to test differently, unnoticed, which is the argument that
gives ci/excluded-charts.txt exactly one parser. The parts that would
drift are the ones that were paid for once already: the pinned kubectl
with its skew check, envsubst, the containerised-job detection, the
per-leg cluster name.
Nothing about how a chart is installed changed. The moved job differs from
its predecessor in the matrix source (inputs.charts instead of the detect
job's output), an id on the install step, and a step that records the
result; every other step is byte-identical.
The all-charts run is workflow_dispatch only - a schedule would spend
compute every day on a question that changes rarely - with an optional
subset input, which is what lets a single chart be tested against the
runner as Gitea #51 needs. One throwaway cluster per chart, no reuse:
reuse saves time and changes what the test proves. An unknown or excluded
chart name, and an empty matrix, are loud errors rather than a green run
over nothing.
Every leg writes its own outcome into the job summary next to the four
facts that decide what the outcome means - date, runner label, K3S_IMAGE,
kubectl version - and a final job records the verdict over the matrix. A
green run nobody notes is unknown again next time. The excluded charts
appear with their justification, from the one parser, as in the pull
request pipeline. 20 charts in 12m41s is written down as the expectation,
so a later deviation is visible as one.
Fixes#52
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