Lane 3a of the testing arc --- the three cheap, deterministic items of
`TEST_IMPROVEMENT.md` §5-6. The larger ones (nextest, the
serial/parallel split, a parallel canary leg, the nightly cron, the
macOS matrix trim) are deliberately NOT here: each changes what CI
certifies or how it runs, and each deserves its own decision rather
than riding in on a timeout patch.
`timeout-minutes` on every job (§5.2). Measured before changing rather
than assumed: SEVEN of eight jobs had none and inherited GitHub's
360-minute default; only `m6-perf-gates` had one, at 15. So a single
hung test burnt six hours --- times four on the test matrix --- and
reported nothing useful at the end of it. Set to 25 against a measured
~14.6 min critical path (macOS/luajit), which leaves ample headroom for
a slow runner while catching a hang in under half an hour.
This is the gate that has to exist before `PMACS_REQUIRE_PYRIGHT` can
ever be set. Lane 2 left basedpyright unarmed *because* this did not
exist; the two decisions are the same decision, half a lane apart.
`concurrency` with `cancel-in-progress` (§6.1), scoped to pull
requests. This project rebases heavily --- the ledger re-conflicts on
nearly every merge --- so branches take several pushes while earlier
runs are still going, and macOS minutes are both the expensive ones and
the critical path. Pushes to `main` are deliberately exempt:
`github.event.pull_request.number` is empty there, so the fallback keys
those runs by SHA and none can cancel another. Cancelling a `main` run
would leave the branch-protection record ambiguous about a commit that
has already landed, which is the one place the saving is not worth
having.
`-p pmacs-protocol` clippy (§5.7). The root-package clippy never
covered it --- the workspace default member is only `pmacs` --- so a
warning introduced through a protocol-only change would reach `main`
unseen. Verified passing locally BEFORE proposing it, so it cannot turn
CI red on arrival.
The timeout rationale is stated once above the job list rather than
copied onto each job: the first draft duplicated a seven-line comment
across seven jobs, which is the same degraded-copy shape this arc keeps
removing elsewhere.
Verified: YAML parses; all eight jobs carry a timeout (seven at 25,
m6-perf-gates keeping its tighter 15); `cargo fmt --all --check`,
`clippy -p pmacs-protocol` and `clippy -p pmacs-gpu` all exit 0;
`git diff --check` clean. The diff touches `ci.yml` and the ledger and
nothing else, so no code gate is affected.
Levi Neuwirth
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