ci: Improve CI status setting

.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status/action.yaml

@@ -14,24 +14,46 @@ inputs:
   token:
     description: A GitHub access token.
     required: true
+  job_name:
+    description: A job name, so that the status' target URL can point to a specific job.
+    required: false
 
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
     - name: Report Commit Status
       shell: bash
       run: |
-        # This is the URL to view this workflow run on GitHub.  It will be
-        # attached to the commit status, so that when someone clicks "details"
-        # next to the status on the PR, it will link to this run where they can
-        # see the logs.
-        RUN_URL="https://github.com/${{github.repository}}/actions/runs/${{github.run_id}}"
+        export GITHUB_TOKEN="${{ inputs.token }}"
+
+        # Here we compute a "target URL".  It will be attached to the commit
+        # status, so that when someone clicks "details" next to the status on
+        # the PR, it will link to the appropriate logs.
+        if [[ "${{ inputs.job_name }}" != "" ]]; then
+          # There are three identifiers for the job:
+          #   - The job's key in YAML, which is "github.job"
+          #   - The job's name, which is not provided by any runner environment
+          #   - The job's numerical ID, which is not provided either
+          # To link to this specific job in the status, we need the numerical
+          # job ID.  The GH API provides a list of jobs, which contain
+          # numerical IDs and names, but not keys.  So the caller of this
+          # action must provide the string name, and then we look up the
+          # numerical ID in the API.  "github.job" is useless here.
+          job_id=$(
+            gh api /repos/${{github.repository}}/actions/runs/${{github.run_id}}/jobs \
+                | jq '.jobs | map(select(.name=="${{ inputs.job_name }}")) | .[].id'
+          )
+          TARGET_URL="https://github.com/${{github.repository}}/actions/runs/${{github.run_id}}/job/$job_id"
+        else
+          # Generic link to the run, without any specific job.
+          TARGET_URL="https://github.com/${{github.repository}}/actions/runs/${{github.run_id}}"
+        fi
+
         SHA1=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
 
-        GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ inputs.token }} \
         gh api \
           -X POST \
           -F "context=${{ inputs.context }}" \
           -F "state=${{ inputs.state }}" \
-          -F "target_url=$RUN_URL" \
+          -F "target_url=$TARGET_URL" \
           "repos/${{ github.repository }}/statuses/$SHA1"

.github/workflows/selenium-lab-tests.yaml

@@ -31,9 +31,17 @@ on:
         required: false
         type: string
       ignore_test_status:
-        description: "If true, ignore test success or failure, never set the commit status, and always upload screenshots."
+        description: "If true, ignore test success or failure, and always upload screenshots."
         required: false
         type: boolean
+      skip_commit_status:
+        description: "If true, skip the commit status."
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+      job_name_prefix:
+        description: "A prefix added to the job name when setting commit status, needed to correctly link to each job.  Use when skip_commit_status is false, and set to the name of the parent job, plus space-slash-space."
+        required: false
+        type: string
   schedule:
     # Runs every night at 2am PST / 10am UTC, testing against the main branch.
     - cron: '0 10 * * *'
@@ -138,10 +146,11 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ needs.compute-ref.outputs.REF }}
 
       - name: Set commit status to pending
-        if: ${{ inputs.ignore_test_status == false }}
+        if: ${{ inputs.skip_test_status == false }}
         uses: ./.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status
         with:
           context: Selenium / Build
+          job_name: "${{ inputs.job_name_prefix }}Pre-build Player"
           state: pending
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -182,10 +191,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Report final commit status
         # Will run on success or failure, but not if the workflow is cancelled
         # or if we were asked to ignore the test status.
-        if: ${{ (success() || failure()) && inputs.ignore_test_status == false }}
+        if: ${{ (success() || failure()) && inputs.skip_commit_status == false }}
         uses: ./.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status
         with:
           context: Selenium / Build
+          job_name: "${{ inputs.job_name_prefix }}Pre-build Player"
           state: ${{ job.status }}
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -206,10 +216,11 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ needs.compute-ref.outputs.REF }}
 
       - name: Set commit status to pending
-        if: ${{ inputs.ignore_test_status == false }}
+        if: ${{ inputs.skip_commit_status == false }}
         uses: ./.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status
         with:
           context: Selenium / ${{ matrix.browser }}
+          job_name: "${{ inputs.job_name_prefix }}${{ matrix.browser }}"
           state: pending
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -362,9 +373,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Report final commit status
         # Will run on success or failure, but not if the workflow is cancelled
         # or if we were asked to ignore the test status.
-        if: ${{ (success() || failure()) && inputs.ignore_test_status == false }}
+        if: ${{ (success() || failure()) && inputs.skip_commit_status == false }}
         uses: ./.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status
         with:
           context: Selenium / ${{ matrix.browser }}
+          job_name: "${{ inputs.job_name_prefix }}${{ matrix.browser }}"
           state: ${{ job.status }}
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/update-screenshots.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       pr: ${{ inputs.pr }}
       test_filter: layout
       ignore_test_status: true
+      job_name_prefix: "Get Selenium Lab Screenshots / "
 
   update-pr:
     name: Update PR
@@ -45,13 +46,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           ref: refs/pull/${{ inputs.pr }}/head
 
-      - name: Set commit status to pending
-        uses: ./.github/workflows/custom-actions/set-commit-status
-        with:
-          context: Update All Screenshots
-          state: pending
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
       - name: Get artifacts
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
@@ -108,15 +102,23 @@ jobs:
       - name: Compute final status
         id: compute
         run: |
-          LAB_TEST_STATUS="${{ needs.run-lab-tests.status }}"
-          UPDATE_PR_STATUS="${{ needs.update-pr.status }}"
-
-          # If run-lab-tests succeeded, use the status of update-pr, otherwise
-          # use run-lab-tests (which is "failed" or "error").
-          if [ "$LAB_TEST_STATUS" == "success" ]; then
-            echo "status=$UPDATE_PR_STATUS" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          # The final status must be one of: success, failure, error, pending.
+          # However, the status from "result" from an earlier job is one of:
+          # success, failure, cancelled, skipped.
+          # We start by mapping those.
+          LAB_TEST_RESULT=$(echo "${{ needs.run-lab-tests.result }}" \
+              | sed -Ee 's/(cancelled|skipped)/error/')
+          UPDATE_PR_RESULT=$(echo "${{ needs.update-pr.result }}" \
+              | sed -Ee 's/(cancelled|skipped)/error/')
+
+          if [[ "$LAB_TEST_RESULT" == "success" ]]; then
+            # If run-lab-tests succeeded, use the status of update-pr, which
+            # comes after that.  If that is blank, default to "error".
+            echo "status=${UPDATE_PR_RESULT:-error}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           else
-            echo "status=$LAST_TEST_STATUS" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            # If run-lab-tests failed, use that.  If that is blank, default to
+            # "error".
+            echo "status=${LAB_TEST_RESULT:-error}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           fi
 
       - name: Report final status