step/job retry for flaky checks (merge queue) before failing required checks”

[huehnerlady]

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Workflow Configuration

Discussion Details

We use GitHub Actions together with the merge queue. Occasionally, an E2E test is flaky and fails transiently, which causes the required check to fail and the whole pull request to be removed from the merge queue.

It would be very helpful to have a first-class retry option in the workflow configuration (for a job and/or step) so that transient failures can be retried automatically within the same check run, and the check only concludes as failed after the retry limit is exceeded.

Additionally, we’d like a way to react inside the workflow when a retry occurs, similar to existing conditional handling for outcomes like failure or cancelled. For example, we want to be able to create a Jira ticket and/or post a Slack message when retries happen, including metadata such as how many retries were needed before the run became green (or before it ultimately failed).

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