Adding a secret is not a push. My three repair workflows were structurally guaranteed never to run.
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This report details a series of failures encountered while attempting to repair published dev.to articles from files in a repository. The three repair workflows were designed to run when files within the devto/ directory were modified, but none of the three workflows actually ran. The issue stemmed from the trigger being tied to the wrong event, as the workflows were waiting for permission to run rather than the file changes themselves.
This permission was never granted, resulting in the workflows never executing. Additionally, the author discovered that adding a repository secret, which is necessary for the workflows to run, does not constitute a push and therefore does not trigger the workflows. Further complications arose when the author attempted to solve the issue by adding a schedule trigger, which also failed due to the scheduling being subject to delay or drop under load.
This resulted in the workflows not running at the scheduled times, leading to the same underlying issue of not being able to start the workflows. The report concludes that for every automated job, it is crucial to clearly define both the event that triggers the job and the condition that must be met for the job to run, and to ensure that these triggers are properly implemented and observed.
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