Three things kept the upstream sync PR (#589) from ever finishing a build:
Scoped dispatches wiped the shared PR. A workflow_dispatch with `packages`
regenerates only those packages from master, and pushing that to
auto/sync-upstream replaced 38 pending updates with one. Scoped runs now
push to their own auto/sync-{upstream,rebuilds}-<packages> branch and PR;
scheduled runs keep the shared branch.
build-approved stopped working after the first bot push. A GITHUB_TOKEN
push creates pull_request runs held for approval but no pull_request_target
run, so approve-pr.yml never saw it: its last run on the branch was the
label itself (2026-09-25T19:26), and each of the next four syncs sat at
action_required. The sync workflows now release the held runs for the
commit they just pushed, from a separate job holding actions: write, and
only for their own bot-authored, same-repo PR while build-approved is on
it.
Each approved push cancelled the in-flight build. Approving the 21:43
sync's build cancelled the label-triggered one still queued on strata and
schist-bin. On auto/sync-* branches a new build now waits for the running
one instead, then reuses its artifacts. The approval script no longer
waits for a lone approved build to start before releasing tests, which a
queued build would have turned into a timeout.
Ryan Hughes