Distillation

Date: Aug 28, 2026

• 🔴 (19:00) User stated workflow_dispatch must always be allowed for manual recovery.
• 🔴 (19:00) User reaffirmed that a renamed or re-approved publish issue must never reach ci-ready.
• 🟡 (19:00) .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml comments specify that ci-pending.yml sets a poller-enabled value to "true" and this poller resets it to "false" when processing is complete.
• 🟡 (19:00) .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml creates a GitHub App token with actions/create-github-app-token@v3; its token owner is getsentry to access all getsentry repositories.
• 🟡 (19:00) .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml considers only issues carrying both ci-pending and accepted labels.
• 🟡 (19:00) Before transitioning an issue to ci-ready, .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml validates approval using the issue title and approval data, ensuring title or accepted-event changes prevent the transition.
• 🟡 (19:00) CI polling extracts a 40-character commit SHA from issue-body URLs matching commit/<sha>/checks; it compares the resolved CI SHA with this issue SHA and does not accept mismatches.
• 🟡 (19:00) CI polling evaluates all check suites rather than hard-coding a release/{version} branch because repositories can use differing branch conventions.
• 🟡 (19:00) CI polling distinguishes unresolved status checks from no reported statuses: a nonzero total_count may still contain checks that have not resolved.
• 🟡 (19:00) CI polling counts unsuccessful completed checks as checks whose conclusion is neither success, neutral, nor skipped.
• 🟡 (19:00) On CI failure, .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml swaps ci-pending for ci-failed, removes accepted to stop polling, and gathers failed check names.
• 🟡 (19:00) After processing, the poller checks for remaining ci-pending issues: no remaining issues disables cron polling; remaining issues keep the poller enabled.
• 🟡 (19:00) .github/workflows/ci-poller.yml documents that GitHub cron */5 is unreliable and can drift to 30–40 minutes under load; the workflow includes an always() retry-related step that increments ATTEMPT.