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Agniva De Sarker 77a24f96d6 MM-52712: Prevent CI cancellation in master (round 2) (#23293)
We discovered that cancel-in-progress only controls
in-progress jobs. Which means that pending jobs will _always_
be cancelled regardless. There is an open discussion:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5435
which was closed saying this is how the feature is designed.

We try to work around this by refactoring into separate reusable
workflows and having concurrency only for PR workflows.

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Background

This document aims to explain the bunch of server and webapp yaml files and their functionality.

The context behind this complexity is that we want new pushes to PR branches to cancel older in-progress and pending CI runs, but we don't want that to happen in master branch. Unfortunately, there is no config knob to control pending workflows and if you set a concurrency group, then pending workflows will always be canceled. Refer to https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5435 for discussion.

Therefore, we have a template yaml file which is actually the main CI code. That is then imported by {server|webapp}-ci-master.yml and {server|webapp}-ci-pr.yml. The -master.yml files don't have any concurrency limits, but -pr.yml files do.

Folder structure

server-ci-pr | ---server-ci-template | ---server-test-template (common code for postgres and mysql tests)

server-ci-master | ---server-ci-template | ---server-test-template (common code for postgres and mysql tests)

webapp-ci-pr | ---webapp-ci-template

webapp-ci-master | ---webapp-ci-template