"Expected — Waiting for status to be reported" even though all runs finished successfully

[dhalbert]

We are seeing pull requests with actions that say "Expected — Waiting for status to be reported", even though the relevant subjobs have finished successfully. This is not a case where the subjobs did not run or did not finish. It appears the status has not been "reported".

An example is adafruit/circuitpython#6803, but nearly all our PR's today have had this problem with certain subjobs. You can see all the pending actions here, with red dots: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pulls. Interesting, the workflows show as complete here: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/actions.

The relevant workflow .yml files have not changed. I submitted a ticket about this but haven't heard back yet.

Has anyone else had this problem starting very recently?

[dhalbert]

I received a very helpful answer to the ticket I opened about this (thank you Paul from GitHub).

This is working as expected. The required status protection rule is expecting the checks to be named build-aarch and build-arm but the checks generated by a matrix job will include the name of the current matrix entry e.g. build-aarch (raspberrypi_zero_w) which is a different name from what the check is expecting. This appears to be a recent change (those checks were made required about 2 weeks ago) that is why you are seeing it on your recent pull requests that target any branch with the pattern *.x.

You will need to edit the branch protection rules (for the *.x branch pattern) to remove those 2 checks as required and optionally add each matrix combination you expect as a required check, e.g. build-aarch (raspberrypi_zero_w), build-arm (8086_commander), build-arm (ADM_B_NRF52840_1) etc.