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Reviewer's GuideThe PR reduces Windows gate wall-clock time by running formatting, Clippy, and Whitaker concurrently with tests, folds the previously serial native-recipe smoke job into the test job, and updates cache ownership, workflow documentation, and contracts to preserve gate coverage and single-writer cache invariants. Flow diagram for the Windows test job and native smoke stepsflowchart TD
TEST[build-test-windows]
RESTORE[Restore gate caches]
SETUP[Set up Rust, Make, Ninja and cargo-nextest]
TESTS[Run make SHELL=bash test]
BUILD[Build Netsuke]
SMOKE[Exercise native Windows recipes with pwsh]
SAVE[Save gate caches]
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SummarySplit Windows CI into concurrent
Implement the parallelisation described in WalkthroughWindows CI now runs linting and testing in concurrent jobs. Cache ownership is split between the jobs. Native Windows recipe smoke checks run in ChangesWindows CI split
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant lint-windows
participant windows-gate-cache
participant build-test-windows
lint-windows->>windows-gate-cache: restore lint profile
build-test-windows->>windows-gate-cache: restore gate profile
lint-windows->>lint-windows: run lint gates
build-test-windows->>build-test-windows: run tests and native recipe smoke
lint-windows->>windows-gate-cache: save lint caches
build-test-windows->>windows-gate-cache: save gate caches
Suggested labels: Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer the Windows CI job split because it is a workflow performance and cache-ownership reorganization without elevated product urgency. Assessment at Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate The Windows gate now runs linting and testing concurrently, reducing lane duration, but its checks can miss disabled smoke commands and conflicting cache writers after future workflow edits. Documentation also needs correction before the new job layout and timing results are reliable to readers. Caution Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.
❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (12 passed)
Full details: Testing (Overall)Explanation The new Windows lint job is not fully guarded by substantive tests. Resolution Extend the blocking-gate test across both Full details: Developer DocumentationExplanation Update the developer guide, but do not keep its Windows CI description internally inconsistent. The workflow now assigns Resolution Correct Full details: Unit ArchitectureExplanation The PR adds query helpers that hide fallible filesystem and YAML work. Resolution Refactor the new helpers to accept already-parsed workflow and action mappings, or inject a narrow loader interface at the test boundary. Keep filesystem reads and YAML parsing in an explicit fixture or loader that handles Run lint beside the test gate Comment |
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Splitting the gate split cache ownership with it, and two savers for one key is the failure that arrangement invites. Actions cache entries are immutable, so a second saver does not overwrite the first; it races for the reservation and loses, and warm behaviour then depends on which job finished first. Nothing in the workflow makes that visible. The contract reads the action's save conditions rather than a list of job names, and evaluates each against each profile the two Windows jobs pass. Widening one save step's profile clause is a one-token edit, so matching on job names would not have caught it. Mutation-proved twice. Widening the tools save from == 'lint' to != 'smoke' gives that key two writers and fails. Moving the whitaker save to the job that never installs the suite fails the ownership assertion. A parametrised test covers the condition reader itself, because the whole check rests on reading an if: expression correctly. Requested on #692 review.
Splitting the gate split cache ownership with it, and two savers for one key is the failure that arrangement invites. Actions cache entries are immutable, so a second saver does not overwrite the first; it races for the reservation and loses, and warm behaviour then depends on which job finished first. Nothing in the workflow makes that visible. The contract reads the action's save conditions rather than a list of job names, and evaluates each against each profile the two Windows jobs pass. Widening one save step's profile clause is a one-token edit, so matching on job names would not have caught it. Mutation-proved twice. Widening the tools save from == 'lint' to != 'smoke' gives that key two writers and fails. Moving the whitaker save to the job that never installs the suite fails the ownership assertion. A parametrised test covers the condition reader itself, because the whole check rests on reading an if: expression correctly. Requested on #692 review.
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Formatting, Clippy and Whitaker ran in series ahead of the test step in one job, for no reason: neither half consumes the other's output. Measured over the 57 Windows runs between run 33890685806 and run 34064668331, that series was 19s of Format, 114s of Lint (Clippy), 40s installing Whitaker and 385s of Lint (Whitaker) ahead of a 471s Test step, in a job whose median total was 1191s. Split, each job pays its own ~150s of checkout, cache restore and toolchain setup, so the lane becomes about max(668, 621) rather than 1191. The cost is a second hosted Windows runner and a second cache restore per pull request. Cache ownership is the part that needed care, because the estate rule is one writer per key and splitting the job splits which job fills which family. The action gains a `lint` profile beside `gate` and `smoke`: lint-windows owns tools and whitaker, the paths it installs into build-test-windows owns registry and sccache, the two its compile fills Both restore all four, so no key gains a second writer. cargo-nextest lands in ~/.cargo/bin and is therefore absent from the generation the lint job saves; it comes from a pinned install-action at a 2s median, which is cheaper than a fifth key. test_windows_lints_and_tests_run_in_separate_concurrent_jobs holds the shape and is mutation-tested: it fails when the test job is given a `needs` on the lint job, and when Clippy is moved back into the test job. The gate-count contract now spans the lane rather than one job, so a gate cannot vanish by migrating. Two contract tables were too coarse for the split and are now three: SETUP_RUST_JOBS covers every job that sets up Rust, MDTABLEFIX_JOBS the subset that runs check-fmt, and NEXTEST_JOBS the subset that runs tests. Reusing one list would have required lint-windows to install a test runner it never uses. Closes #691.
Splitting the gate split cache ownership with it, and two savers for one key is the failure that arrangement invites. Actions cache entries are immutable, so a second saver does not overwrite the first; it races for the reservation and loses, and warm behaviour then depends on which job finished first. Nothing in the workflow makes that visible. The contract reads the action's save conditions rather than a list of job names, and evaluates each against each profile the two Windows jobs pass. Widening one save step's profile clause is a one-token edit, so matching on job names would not have caught it. Mutation-proved twice. Widening the tools save from == 'lint' to != 'smoke' gives that key two writers and fails. Moving the whitaker save to the job that never installs the suite fails the ownership assertion. A parametrised test covers the condition reader itself, because the whole check rests on reading an if: expression correctly. Requested on #692 review.
#687 added a 'Where the CI workflow lives' heading directly above the paragraph this section had been inserted before, so rebasing onto it left that heading with no body and two blank lines under it. markdownlint caught it as MD012. The section now follows the workflow-location and pin paragraphs, which is where a rationale belongs rather than between a heading and its own first sentence.
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53-57: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winExclude PowerShell block comments.
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<# ... #>comments incommand_lines. The current filter removes only
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1027-1027: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFix the grammatical number.
Replace “These were a second job” with “These steps were in a second job”. The subject is
Two steps, so “were a second job” is incorrect.Triage:
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In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Line 594: Update the CI job count sentence immediately above the workflow
table from five CI jobs to six CI jobs, keeping the five-workflow count
unchanged to match the six entries including lint-windows.
- Around line 638-644: Update the timing discussion in the surrounding
documentation to label the 1,191-second figure as the measured median for the
single job and identify its 57-run range and measurement method. Label max(668,
621) as a derived split-lane estimate, then distinguish it from the objective’s
1,468-second pre-split and 816–877-second post-split end-to-end figures,
explaining that the metrics use different scopes and calculation methods.
In `@tests/workflow_contracts/windows_cache_writers_test.py`:
- Around line 73-77: Update the cache-writer ownership logic around the profile
predicate checks and save-call collection so every profile predicate is
evaluated and all mode-save invocations per job are retained. Avoid returning
after the first matching predicate and avoid overwriting an earlier profile;
aggregate results so multiple profiles can produce the expected two-writer
detection. Add coverage for two save calls using different profiles and for
combined profile predicates such as lint and gate.
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In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Line 1027: Update the sentence beginning “These were a second job” to “These
steps were in a second job,” preserving the surrounding explanation and code
identifiers.
In `@tests/workflow_contracts/ci_windows_smoke_test.py`:
- Around line 53-57: Update the command-line parsing helper that builds
`command_lines` to ignore PowerShell block comments delimited by <# and #>,
including multi-line blocks, while preserving existing blank-line and
single-line comment filtering. Add a parametrized regression case covering
block-commented required commands and both assertions, ensuring the smoke
command must execute for the test to pass.
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CodeRabbit found that the contract added last round could report the ownership it was asked to check while the real condition said something else. Both defects were real. The reader returned after the first profile predicate, so inputs.profile == 'lint' || inputs.profile == 'gate' read as lint-only. It now reads the expression as a disjunction of conjunctions: || separates alternatives and every profile predicate within an alternative must hold. windows_save_profiles kept only the last mode: save call per job, so a job adding a second call with the other profile was invisible. It now returns every save profile a job passes, and a job writes a key if any of its calls admits the profile. Parentheses are refused rather than guessed at. The reader groups || and && positionally, which parentheses would invalidate, so a parenthesised condition raises with a message saying to extend the reader. A loud failure is the safe direction; a silent misgrouping is the failure this file exists to prevent. Proved by mutation, three edits each applied alone and each now failing where the previous version passed: the tools save widened with a parenthesised ||, the same widening unparenthesised, and a second save call on lint-windows passing profile: gate. Also corrects two documentation findings. The shared-Rust-setup sentence said five CI jobs where the table now has six. And the two-jobs section quoted a 1191s single-job median beside a derived max(668, 621) estimate as though they were comparable; the estimate is gone and each figure now carries its scope, method and run range, with the note that the 1468s end-to-end median is the number comparable with the post-split runs.
Six items, none of them the inline threads, which were settled last round. A PowerShell block comment defeated the smoke contract. `command_lines` stripped `#` line comments only, so wrapping the whole run block in `<# ... #>` left every command looking executable and both assertions passed while nothing ran. It now strips both comment forms, with a non-greedy block match so two blocks do not swallow the live command between them, and five parametrised cases covering each form. Proved by mutation: block-commenting the cargo build now fails where it passed. That is the third time a contract of mine asserted the thing I meant rather than the thing that would break: a substring that a comment satisfied, a profile predicate read only to its first clause, and now a comment syntax the filter did not know. The lint job was not fully guarded. `test_windows_job_is_a_blocking_merge_gate` checked only `build-test-windows`, so the whole lint half could have become advisory with nothing failing. The blocking-gate, runner and Git Bash contracts now run against both jobs by parametrisation. The writer helpers hid fallible work behind lookup names. `action_save_steps` read and parsed a file inside a data-returning API, so `OSError` and `yaml.YAMLError` surfaced from something that read like a query. Both helpers now take already-parsed mappings, and the reads live in fixtures that name the file they failed on. Two documentation corrections. The guide still described `gate` as the single writer of every Windows key, which this change made untrue; it now states the split ownership and points at the contract holding it. And "These were a second job" disagreed with its subject, "Two steps". The title now carries (#691).
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CodeRabbit confirmed four of the six items against a677801 and returned two. The cache-action read still hid its failures. Moving the parse out of the query helpers left `read_text` and `yaml.safe_load` in the fixture, where an OSError or a YAMLError surfaced with no indication of which of several YAML inputs had failed. `load_cache_action` now catches both and raises naming the file and the operation, chaining the original, and rejects a well-formed document that is not a mapping at the boundary rather than letting the wrong shape reach a helper typed to expect a mapping. Three regression tests drive a temporary file for each path, so a missing action, malformed YAML and a scalar document are all exercised without the repository having to be broken. The loader moved to windows_cache_action.py and its tests to their own module, because adding them took windows_cache_writers_test.py to 416 lines, past the 400-line limit AGENTS.md sets. That limit has now caught this branch three times; splitting on the second was the right call and the same applies here. The developers' guide still described `build-test-windows` as the job that "compiles, lints (Clippy and Whitaker), and tests", which this change made untrue in a section I had not touched. It now names both concurrent jobs, gives formatting, Clippy and Whitaker to `lint-windows` and compilation, tests and the smoke steps to `build-test-windows`, and says a failure in either blocks the merge.
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DispositionUnit Architecture. The read and the parse now live in Three regression tests in
The loader and its tests are in modules of their own because adding them took Developer Documentation. The sentence is corrected. It now reads:
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CodeRabbit confirmed the Unit Architecture work and found the developer documentation still wrong in two further places I had not swept. Both said 'Both build jobs pass its required installer-version input', which was true when the Windows gate was one job. It is not now: the two jobs that invoke the shared install-whitaker action are build-test in ci.yml and lint-windows in ci-windows.yml. build-test-windows neither installs nor runs Whitaker. The passage appears twice, near the Whitaker setup instructions and again after the lint-tool sequence figure, so both were replaced and the replacement asserted on a count of two rather than a first match. Swept the whole guide afterwards for any other statement assigning Whitaker or Clippy to build-test-windows, or to both Windows jobs. The five remaining mentions are correct.
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DispositionBoth passages are corrected. They were identical, so the replacement asserted a
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Closes #691. Third of three changes aimed at the Windows gate's wall clock,
after #687 and #690. #690 has merged, so this now sits directly on
main.Formatting, Clippy and Whitaker ran in series ahead of the test step inside one
job, for no reason: neither half consumes the other's output.
What the series cost
Measured over the 57 successful Windows gate runs between run 33890685806, the
#664 merge, and run 34064668331.
Lint (Whitaker)is the single largest step in the lane. Split, each job paysits own roughly 150s of checkout, cache restore and toolchain setup, so the
lane becomes about
max(668, 621)rather than 1191.The cost is a second hosted Windows runner and a second cache restore per pull
request. These are GitHub-hosted minutes on a public repository, and runner
cost is accepted where it speeds development.
Cache ownership, which is the part that needed care
The estate rule is one writer per key, and splitting the job splits which job
fills which family. The Windows cache action gains a
lintprofile besidegateandsmoke:toolslint-windowswhitakerlint-windowsregistrybuild-test-windowssccachebuild-test-windowsBoth jobs restore all four, so no key gains a second writer, and keeping
registryandsccachewith the existing job name means no current cacheentry is orphaned.
One honest cost:
cargo-nextestlands in~/.cargo/bin, part of thetoolsfamily, so it is absent from the generation the lint job saves. It comes from a
pinned install-action at a 2s median, which is cheaper than inventing a fifth
key. That is recorded in the action's
profileinput rather than left to berediscovered.
test_every_windows_cache_key_has_exactly_one_writerholds that table. Itreads the action's save conditions and evaluates each against each profile the
two jobs pass, rather than matching job names, because widening a save step's
profile clause is a one-token edit that a name-matching check would not see.
Mutation-proved twice: widening the
toolssave from== 'lint'to!= 'smoke'gives that key two writers and fails, and moving thewhitakersave to the job that never installs the suite fails the ownership assertion. A
parametrised test covers the condition reader itself, since the whole check
rests on reading an
if:expression correctly.Contracts
test_windows_lints_and_tests_run_in_separate_concurrent_jobsis the contractthat keeps this change from silently undoing itself. It asserts each Git Bash
Makefile gate runs in the job that owns it and that neither job declares
needs. Mutation-tested twice: it fails when the test job is given aneedson the lint job, and when Clippy is moved back into the test job.
The gate-count contract now spans the lane rather than one job, so a gate
cannot disappear by migrating between them, and the job-list contract expects
both jobs rather than one.
Two contract tables were too coarse for the split and are now three.
SETUP_RUST_JOBShad been doing three jobs at once: naming who sets up Rust,who installs mdtablefix, and who installs cargo-nextest. Those diverge here,
because
lint-windowssets up Rust and runscheck-fmtbut runs no tests. Itis now
SETUP_RUST_JOBS,MDTABLEFIX_JOBSandNEXTEST_JOBS. Reusing the onelist would have forced the lint job to install a test runner it never uses.
The Rust workflow contract in
tests/workflow_ci.rsfollows Whitaker to thelint job, and asserts separately that the lint job does not shadow the
workflow-level nextest pin despite installing no runner.
What it delivered
Runs 34090304160, 34098601536 and 34164600713, this branch's own gates, all
green with the two jobs starting in the same second.
lint-windowsbuild-test-windowsA 620s saving, 42 percent. A contributor waits fourteen minutes for Windows
verification instead of twenty-five.
The lane is now the slower of the two jobs, and the two are close, which is
what a good split looks like: 848s against 806s. Step detail from that run:
Two things stand out for whoever looks next.
Install Whitakertook 211s and 203s against a 40s median. That is expectedand temporary: under the new ownership the
whitakerkey has no generationuntil this lands on
mainand the lint job writes the first one. It shouldfall back to about 40s on the second trunk run, and if it does not, the
ownership split is the first place to look.
Which job is the critical path has already changed once.
Testled the firsttwo runs at 535s and 592s; by the third it had fallen to 427s as sccache
warmed, and
lint-windowsled at 877s. That is the split working as intended,with the lane tracking whichever half is slower rather than their sum, but it
also means the 229s Whitaker install is now on the critical path and worth the
most attention after this merges.
Build Netsukemoved from 110s to 46s and 49s across the three runs as sccachewarmed. It is the feature-resolution rebuild described in #690, not something
this change introduces.
Evidence
Local gates, all run bare and all green:
check-fmt,lintin full (Clippy,Whitaker, Ruff, Pylint, the df12 house lints, ambrleaks, yamllint and
actionlint),
markdownlintwith spelling,typecheck,doc-coverage,test-workflow-contractsat 293 passed, andmake testat 2802 of 2802passed.
Summary by Sourcery
Run the independent Windows lint and test gates concurrently while preserving cache ownership and workflow invariants.
New Features:
Enhancements:
CI:
Documentation:
Tests: