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mozilla-actions/sccache-action registers a post-job step (dist/show_stats) that runs $SCCACHE_PATH --show-stats and, on any error, calls core.setFailed. After a #546 fallback the server is dead, --show-stats restarts it, and a second startup timeout fails the job: the lost cache becomes a red job, which is what #546's fail-open start exists to prevent. Found by CodeRabbit on wildside #517 and verified in the action's source at the pinned commit fc920bf0.

The only switch is the disable_annotations input. Despite its name it returns before any statistics call (if (disable_annotations) return), so it turns off the whole post report. This sets disable_annotations: true on both sccache-action uses in setup-rust.

Consequence: the action's own end-of-job stats table and notice disappear for every consumer. Consumers report statistics themselves with a step guarded on sccache-status != 'fallback', or with sccache-report once #580 lands. Documented in the setup-rust README and CHANGELOG, docs/users-guide.md and docs/developers-guide.md.

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.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py scans every workflow and composite action manifest in the repository for sccache-action uses and fails for any that lacks a literal true (false, an expression and a missing block all count as missing). It also requires some uses to exist, so a scan over nothing cannot pass.

Mutation-proved in both directions, each caught by a named test: remove it from the macOS use; remove it from the main use; set it false; add a new use without it in a different workflow file; rename the action out from under the scan (the empty-scan guard fails).

391 tests under .github/actions/tests and .github/actions/setup-rust/tests pass; ruff, markdownlint and mdtablefix clean.

Rollout

Independent of #574 and #580 (neither is touched, so their reviews stand). Once merged, the sweep repins every repository at 6cec89b to the new SHA, one repin per repository.

Summary by Sourcery

Disable sccache post-job statistics reporting to keep cache fallbacks fail-open without turning successful builds into failed jobs.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent sccache fallback jobs from failing during post-job statistics reporting when the cache server is unavailable.

Enhancements:

  • Disable the sccache action's post-job report for every repository use and direct consumers to report statistics only when sccache starts successfully.
  • Add a repository-wide contract test requiring every sccache-action use to set disable_annotations to a literal true.

Documentation:

  • Document the disabled sccache post report, its fallback behavior, and caller-managed statistics reporting in setup-rust and the user and developer guides.
  • Record the sccache post-report change in the setup-rust changelog.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for repository-wide action-use scanning, literal input validation, case-insensitive action matching, and detection of unprotected workflow uses.

The action's post step runs sccache --show-stats and fails the job on an
error. After a server fallback that command restarts the dead server, so a
second startup timeout could fail a job that built without the cache. Set
disable_annotations: true on both uses, and add a contract over every
workflow and action manifest in the repository.

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The PR prevents sccache’s post-job --show-stats step from restarting a dead server after fallback and turning a successful uncached build red. It applies the disable switch to both setup-rust uses, documents the resulting reporting contract, and adds mutation-tested repository-wide enforcement for future uses.

Sequence diagram for safe sccache fallback reporting

sequenceDiagram
    participant Build
    participant SetupRust
    participant Sccache
    participant PostReport

    Build->>SetupRust: run sccache
    SetupRust->>Sccache: start server
    alt server startup fails
        Sccache-->>SetupRust: fallback
        SetupRust-->>Build: continue without cache
    else server starts
        Sccache-->>SetupRust: started
        SetupRust-->>Build: build with cache
    end
    Note over SetupRust,PostReport: disable_annotations: true
    PostReport-->>Sccache: post report disabled
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Flow diagram for repository-wide sccache report enforcement

flowchart LR
    Uses[All sccache-action uses] --> Scan[Contract test scans workflow and action manifests]
    Scan --> Check{disable_annotations: true}
    Check -->|yes| Pass[Pass]
    Check -->|no| Fail[Fail test]
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Disable the sccache action’s post-job statistics report to prevent fallback builds from failing during a second server startup.
  • Set disable_annotations: true on both pinned sccache-action invocations.
  • Document the lost built-in statistics output, the fallback failure mode, and caller-side guarded reporting.
  • Add a repository-wide contract that requires a literal true for every sccache-action use and validates missing, false, and expression-valued inputs.
.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml
.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py
.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md
.github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md
docs/users-guide.md
docs/developers-guide.md

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Summary

  • Set disable_annotations: true on both mozilla-actions/sccache-action uses in setup-rust. This disables the complete post-job report, including sccache --show-stats, which could restart the server after a cache fallback and fail the job.
  • Add a repository-wide contract test to find sccache-action uses in workflows and action manifests and require the setting to be literal true.
  • Document the suppressed statistics table and notice, and explain how callers can report statistics separately while avoiding the fallback status.

Test results are not established by the supplied source output. No new execplan document is identified.

Walkthrough

Both setup-rust uses of sccache-action now set disable_annotations: true. New tests scan repository YAML manifests for uses that do not disable the post-job report. Documentation describes the report behaviour and guarded statistics-reporting alternatives.

Changes

sccache post-report control

Layer / File(s) Summary
Disable the post-job report
.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml, .github/actions/setup-rust/README.md, docs/users-guide.md, .github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md
Both sccache-action steps set disable_annotations: true. Documentation describes the post-job report, its sccache --show-stats command and statistics-reporting alternatives guarded by sccache-status.
Enforce the manifest setting
.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py, docs/developers-guide.md
Tests scan workflow and composite-action YAML manifests for sccache-action uses. They treat only boolean true or string "true" as disabled and report uses without that value. The developer guide documents the test contract and cases.

Suggested labels: Issue

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bf872

The change prevents the post-job report from failing jobs after a cache fallback. The recommended statistics guard should require a started server so that consumers do not publish empty statistics. This is a small documentation follow-up.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ❌ Error The added tests cover manifest scanning and input-value edge cases, but they do not exercise the changed workflow behaviour. .github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py only calls `scca… Add an end-to-end test at the GitHub Actions boundary. Run setup-rust with sccache on a real runner, force the fail-open fallback, and assert that the job remains successful without a failing post-job statistics report. Keep the repositor…
Observability ⚠️ Warning The pull request removes the sccache action's end-of-job statistics table and notice from both setup-rust paths by adding disable_annotations: true. The changed code adds no replacement runtime st… Add a built-in, status-guarded statistics signal for setup-rust consumers. Emit a bounded metric or job-summary record for the cache outcome and report statistics when sccache-status != 'fallback'; preserve the fallback warning and outp…
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (5 skipped: 5…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Testing (Overall) ✅ Passed The tests are substantive and are collected by the repository configuration: pytest.ini includes .github/actions, and CI runs uv run pytest. The new contract scans workflow and composite-action …
User-Facing Documentation ✅ Passed Pass this check. The changed behaviour is clearly documented in docs/users-guide.md: it explains that setup-rust disables the sccache post-job report, why fallback jobs require this change, and ho…
Developer Documentation ✅ Passed Pass this check. The pull request updates docs/developers-guide.md with the post-job sccache --show-stats failure mode, the disable_annotations: true decision, the consumer sccache-status repo…
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed Pass the module-level documentation check. The pull request adds one Python module, .github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py. Its first statement is a module docstring that explains …
Testing (Property / Proof) ✅ Passed Pass this check. The pull request introduces a finite repository contract and a small, complete parameter table for input interpretation. The new scan checks every YAML manifest and all two current sc…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ✅ Passed Pass this check. The reviewed changes contain no Rust or TypeScript compile-time behaviour. They update GitHub Action YAML and documentation, and add focused Python assertions for parsed manifests and…
Unit Architecture ✅ Passed Pass the Unit Architecture check. The pull request changes only GitHub Action configuration, documentation, and a read-only contract test. The new pure helpers inspect parsed YAML without writes, netw…
Domain Architecture ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes GitHub Action infrastructure, documentation, and contract tests only. It adds disable_annotations: true to both mozilla-actions/sccache-action uses and scans YAML m…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes disabling the sccache post-job report and references issue #546, which the pull request description identifies as the fixed issue.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the sccache fallback failure, the implementation, the tests, the documentation updates, and the rollout scope.
Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)

Explanation

The added tests cover manifest scanning and input-value edge cases, but they do not exercise the changed workflow behaviour. .github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py only calls sccache_action_uses() and leaves_post_report_on() over YAML or synthetic dictionaries. It never runs setup-rust, the sccache post step, sccache --show-stats, or the fallback path. The change affects an externally observable job outcome through .github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml. The existing .github/workflows/test-setup-rust-sccache.yml tests a healthy cache path and does not induce fallback or verify post-report suppression.

Resolution

Add an end-to-end test at the GitHub Actions boundary. Run setup-rust with sccache on a real runner, force the fail-open fallback, and assert that the job remains successful without a failing post-job statistics report. Keep the repository-wide manifest contract and its edge-case tests.

Full details: Observability

Explanation

The pull request removes the sccache action's end-of-job statistics table and notice from both setup-rust paths by adding disable_annotations: true. The changed code adds no replacement runtime statistics, metric, or summary. Existing setup-rust.sccache.server metrics and sccache-status only report server start or fallback state; they do not report cache effectiveness or the missing post-job report. The documentation tells callers to add their own guarded report, but callers that do not do so lose cache observability. This is a pull-request-caused observability gap for changed cache and job reliability behaviour.

Resolution

Add a built-in, status-guarded statistics signal for setup-rust consumers. Emit a bounded metric or job-summary record for the cache outcome and report statistics when sccache-status != 'fallback'; preserve the fallback warning and output. Add tests that verify the normal and fallback paths produce the expected observability signal, and document the signal for callers.

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Two cache steps quiet the post-job call
A manifest scan checks each YAML use
Literal true marks the report disabled
Fallback status guides separate statistics
The changelog records the setting
Clear notes trace the sccache path

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- Around line 299-301: Update the statistics-reporting guidance in both
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‘started’; do not use the broader not-‘fallback’ condition, since an empty
status must skip reporting.

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preserving the existing version suffix handling. Add a test with a case-variant
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Replying to the three non-passing rows of the pre-merge table at bf8729b, the head the table covers (the head is now 61f0eb1, which fixes the four threads).

Testing (Unit And Behavioural). The behaviour the row wants run is a third-party action's post step, dist/show_stats of mozilla-actions/sccache-action@fc920bf0. This repository does not own that code, and its behaviour was established from its source at the pinned commit rather than inferred: the post step runs --show-stats and calls setFailed on error, and disable_annotations returns before any statistics call. The change is one literal input on each of two uses, and the contract that fails when either use, or any new use anywhere in the repository, lacks a literal true is mutation-proved (removal from either use, false, an unprotected use in another workflow, a case-variant name, an empty scan). A real-runner end-to-end test would need a proxy timeout forced on demand, which a pull request cannot arrange. The server-start fallback itself, the part this repository does own, is executed under bash with a fake binary in test_sccache_server_start.py.

Observability. The fallback stays visible through the sccache-fallback annotation, the summary line, the sccache-status output and the setup-rust.sccache.server metric. Cache effectiveness reporting is deliberately not rebuilt inside setup-rust here: that is the sccache-report action in #580, a separate PR under review, which is the status-guarded statistics step this row asks for. This PR documents that and the guard to use (sccache-status == 'started').

Title check. Actioned: the title now references the change this one completes, (completes #546). A title edit does not move the head.

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Following up on the Observability row: the concrete replacement for the removed post-job table is the sccache-report action in #580 (status-guarded, fallback-aware statistics). The docs added here point to it. @coderabbitai

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@leynos, thanks for clarifying. The status-guarded, fallback-aware sccache-report action in #580 provides the replacement statistics report. The documentation in #582 points consumers to that separate action.

I withdraw the Observability concern. Keep the replacement report in #580; #582 does not need to duplicate it.


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@leynos leynos changed the title setup-rust: switch off the sccache action's post report setup-rust: switch off the sccache action's post report (completes #546) Oct 2, 2026
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Closing: the premise of this PR was wrong.

The PR assumed that after a #546 fallback the sccache-action's post step (sccache --show-stats) would restart the dead server and could fail the job on a second startup timeout. In sccache's src/commands.rs (v0.12.0), Command::ShowStats calls connect_to_server and, on Err, returns default empty statistics (lines 623-633); v0.17.0 does the same (line 722 onward). Only Command::ZeroStats uses connect_or_start_server (lines 692-694). So --show-stats never starts a server, the post step prints empty statistics and exits 0 after a fallback, and there is nothing for disable_annotations: true to protect. I had verified that the post step calls setFailed on an error, but not that --show-stats could produce one.

Removing every consumer's statistics table for no failure is not worth it, so this PR is closed unmerged. The real hazard is --zero-stats after a failed start, which does start a server and can fail; that is handled in the setup-sccache composite in leynos/cuprum#582, and the incorrect "would try to start it again" sentence in #546's README and users' guide is corrected in a follow-up docs change.

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