[stumbo]

Updates unwatched CI processes to provide feedback on failure.

On failure an email is sent to the interlisp.org group ci_failures. An example message with the current build failure:

CI workflow FAILED for Interlisp/Interlisp.github.io.

Workflow: github pages
Event: pull_request
Ref: refs/pull/351/merge (351/merge)
SHA: 8123d7beb0620a75f6525443baae817069839261
Actor: stumbo
Run: https://github.com/Interlisp/Interlisp.github.io/actions/runs/38298705101

Job results:
  validate-docs: success
  hugo-version: success
  build: failure (skipped=false, has-warnings=)
  preview: skipped
  deploy: skipped

Please review the failed run logs at the URL above.

[pamoroso]

I have no idea how to test this but it looks useful and reasonable.

[masinter]

testing the code to respond to a failure of workflow is likely to risk a stack overflow or infinite loop.
So i think we have to just merge this and test it after install.
Back it out if it doesn't behave as expected.

[hjellinek]

Who will send the failure emails. That is, what address?

I ask because the ci_failures group currently won't accept email sent from non-interlisp.org addresses. I can fix that if you want me to.

[hjellinek]

Who will send the failure emails. That is, what address?

I ask because the ci_failures group currently won't accept email sent from non-interlisp.org addresses. I can fix that if you want me to.

@stumbo just told me that the email is sent from an @interlisp.org bot address, so no need to change anything.

[interlisp-staging-bot]

Staging preview for this pull request is available at https://interlisp.github.io/Interlisp.staging/pr-351/

[stumbo]

Perfect - the build failed and sent the expected notice on the initial PR because the issue with Zotero was still broken. Once PR 350 was merged into main and main was merged into this PR, fixing the Zotero issue, it completed deployed the staging site and did not send a failure note.

We tested the two conditions we're interested in - generating emails on failures and not skipping the email step when the build works correctly.