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ci: re-measure the JRuby retry budget, which the suite had outgrown #289

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22 changes: 16 additions & 6 deletions .github/workflows/test.yml
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runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# Must fit `max_attempts * timeout_minutes` below, plus ~1 min of setup,
# or the last attempt gets killed mid-run and the cell reports `cancelled`
# -- a dead gate. JRuby: 1 + 15 + 15 = 31. MRI: 1 + 3 + 3 = 7, under 8.
timeout-minutes: ${{ contains(matrix.ruby-version, 'jruby') && 31 || 8 }}
# -- a dead gate. JRuby: 1 + 20 + 20 = 41. MRI: 1 + 3 + 3 = 7, under 8.
timeout-minutes: ${{ contains(matrix.ruby-version, 'jruby') && 41 || 8 }}
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Please update the JRuby timeout rationale comments to match the new values and arithmetic: change JRuby 3x15=45 > 25 to JRuby 3x20=60 > 41, and describe 20 minutes as approximately 36% more time than the measured 881-second runtime. Keep any future job cap above the per-attempt timeout, or reduce the per-attempt timeout if the cap is lowered below 20 minutes.

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  • .github/workflows/test.yml#L181-L183
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In @.github/workflows/test.yml around lines 113 - 114, Update the timeout
rationale comments near the workflow timeout configuration: state the JRuby
calculation as 3x20=60 > 41, set each JRuby attempt’s timeout_minutes below 16
if its job cap is 16 minutes, and revise the 881-second explanation to say that
20 minutes provides approximately 36% more time.

Apply the same fix in @.github/workflows/test.yml around lines 181 - 183:
Covered by the corrected headroom arithmetic in the consolidated comment.

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continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.experimental }}
strategy:
matrix:
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- name: Run tests (with 1 retry)
uses: nick-fields/retry@v4
with:
# Measured on master run 32643567648: a clean JRuby attempt is
# 545-713s depending on the gemfile, so 15 min is ~26% headroom over
# the slowest. MRI is 128s against 3 min.
timeout_minutes: ${{ contains(matrix.ruby-version, 'jruby') && 15 || 3 }}
# Re-measured on master run 32758898367 (the last green one before
# the budget bit): a clean JRuby attempt is now 652-881s, not the
# 545-713s this was set from on run 32643567648. The suite grew from
# 646 to 757 runs in between, so 881s against a 900s cap left 2%
# headroom, and the jruby-10.0/rails80 cell duly timed out on run
# 32763256451 -- with tests still printing dots when SIGTERM landed,
# so it was slow, not hung.
#
# 20 min restores ~26% over the slowest attempt, which is the margin
# this was originally sized for. MRI is 128s against 3 min and does
# not move. If JRuby ever exceeds this again, re-measure and raise
# BOTH numbers -- a per-attempt timeout that does not fit the job cap
# reports `cancelled`, which reads as an absence rather than a fail.
timeout_minutes: ${{ contains(matrix.ruby-version, 'jruby') && 20 || 3 }}
# Two, not three. A third attempt never fit inside the job cap on
# either engine (JRuby 3x15=45 > 25; MRI 3x3=9 > 8), so it only ever
# got killed partway and reported the cell as `cancelled`. Keeping
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