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Background

A manual Community CI start on the Dev branch could reuse a successful CPU-only compatibility run and overwrite the complete Stable failure or pending status after GPU promotion. Coordination also ran from the selected implementation branch. This follows up #1301 by keeping the coordinator on main and separating the implementation ref from the requested lane.

Exit Criteria

  • Coordination and result publication run from refs/heads/main.
  • A manual Dev-only request cannot overwrite Stable results or cancel the normal main comparison entry.
  • Denied publishers cannot change a status through failure handling.
  • Automatic PR dual running, validation stages, GPU policy, and Internal CI remain unchanged.

Implementation

  • Run both coordinator jobs only on main, with an additional publisher check before any status write. Require publisher authorization in failure reporting.
  • Start manual Dev-only runs from main with ci_lane=dev. Keep them in a separate concurrency group, and route snapshot failures to Dev.
  • Select the Dev implementation through TRTMC_COMMUNITY_CI_DEV_REF; the dispatcher accepts the approved main and ci/developer refs. Workers continue using the captured PR snapshot.
  • Document the manual entry and add regression tests that execute the real workflow shell scripts with a fake GitHub API.

Change categories

  • CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

  • python -m pytest tools/tests/test_community_ci.py -q: 150 passed.
  • python -m tools.community_ci source-quality --base github/main: passed, including 287 contract tests, legal headers, complexity, and Ruff.
  • actionlint .github/workflows/community-ci.yml, Ruff, and git diff --check: passed.
  • The regression control reproduced the original workflow overwriting both failed and pending Stable GPU results with success. The patched manual Dev request preserves both and writes only Dev statuses.
  • Local application to ci/developer@e1bf637a, retaining its GPU/promotion behavior and both sets of tests: python -m pytest tools/tests/test_community_ci.py tools/tests/test_new_ci.py tools/tests/test_merge_ready_slack_alert.py tools/tests/test_community_gpu_ci.py -q: 275 passed.
  • Definition/byte comparisons confirmed unchanged Stable executor jobs, GPU policy, and Internal CI Bridge.
  • Exact-head Stable Community CI: passed.
  • Exact-head Dev Community CI: every CPU stage passed; GPU allocation failed with ResourceExhausted: quota vpc.pool.count before model tests began. Independent cleanup confirmed the failed instance was absent.
  • The main coordinator completed successfully and retained Stable success while publishing the advisory Dev failure.
  • DCO, PR Metadata, and CodeRabbit passed. The existing protected TRTMC Internal CI / Automated premerge gate passed on this exact head.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Commit 4c4fd13737d8b936220c70a9a11051725e63488b, based on main@82502513326fb2543f2088dffaa3a59c98c935d9. Local validation used Linux and Python 3.12. No model, checkpoint, CUDA, TensorRT, or GPU revision changed.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

This head has no completed GPU model-test evidence because the Brev provider VPC-pool quota blocked allocation. Dev remains advisory and is not a required merge check. The earlier head's GPU pass does not qualify this revision. The configured main-only coordinator and manual Dev-only entry require post-merge execution to verify deployment; no promotion has been performed.

Contributor Self-Review

  • I have completed a self-review of this change.

Reviewed automatic/main/manual-Dev routing, every coordinator status-writing path, input ref validation, failure callbacks, and concurrency isolation. Tests cover non-main refs, a main tag, mismatched status contexts, rejected implementation refs, automatic and manual main comparisons, and failed or pending Stable GPU results.

Notes For Future Readers

After merging, apply the same fix to ci/developer before promoting its GPU implementation. This PR does not update the live Dev branch or change required checks. Protected CI refs remain the source-code trust boundary; these checks enforce the supported coordinator routing.

The coordination code overlaps #1338's workflow-layout refactor. If that lands first, preserve the main-only coordinator, validated implementation ref, publisher guard, and regression coverage in the resulting controller/action.

Risk level

  • Medium

This changes the manual coordinator entry and status publication. Main still starts both lanes when enabled; Stable test content and Internal CI are unchanged.

Manual Dev comparisons must not replace the complete Stable verdict with a CPU-only compatibility result after GPU promotion. Authorize each publisher before any status write, including failure handling.

Refs: NVIDIA#1301
Signed-off-by: yifeif <277870278+yifeif-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 Summary

Summary

Community CI now allows Stable status publication only from the coordinator on refs/heads/main.

Manual ci/developer runs publish only Dev results, regardless of the dual-run setting. Status writes and failure reporting require lane, entry-ref, and status-context authorization. Snapshot-failure handling uses the full branch ref.

Automatic PR dual runs and existing GPU, Internal CI, Stable executor, and required-check behavior remain unchanged.

Architecture impact

  • Family-owned files: .github/community-ci.md, .github/workflows/community-ci.yml, and tools/tests/test_community_ci.py.
  • Shared surfaces: Community CI lane selection, coordination, snapshot lookup, dispatch authorization, and GitHub status publication.
  • Dependency directions: No new runtime dependencies. Tests use workflow shell scripts and a fake GitHub API.
  • Affected consumers: Manual developer runs, the main-branch coordinator, Stable and Dev status consumers, and required checks.
  • Unresolved blast-radius question: Live publisher behavior remains unverified until deployment.

Validation

Community CI tests, contract checks, actionlint, Ruff, whitespace checks, and broader regression tests passed, with 264 tests reported.

Review finding severity counts are unavailable from the supplied evidence.

HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED — Confirm status publication behavior after deployment.

Walkthrough

Community CI now requires main-based coordination for manual qualification, supports explicit Dev-only dispatches, restricts implementation refs, and guards status publication. Documentation and tests cover lane selection, snapshot handling, verdict preservation, authorization, and dispatch validation.

Changes

Community CI status flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lane selection and coordination rules
.github/workflows/community-ci.yml, .github/community-ci.md, tools/tests/test_community_ci.py
Manual dispatches select Dev only when ci_lane=dev. Stable runs follow the dual-run setting. Snapshot coordination and dispatch require the main branch ref.
Publisher authorization and dispatch refs
.github/workflows/community-ci.yml, .github/community-ci.md, tools/tests/test_community_ci.py
Status writes require authorized lane, ref, and context combinations. Failed-request reporting has the same authorization guard. Dispatch refs are limited to approved Stable and Dev refs.
Lane and verdict validation coverage
tools/tests/test_community_ci.py
Tests cover explicit Dev execution, preserved Stable verdicts, snapshot failure contexts, non-main rejection, and unapproved implementation refs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkflowDispatch
  participant CommunityCI
  participant GitHubAPI
  WorkflowDispatch->>CommunityCI: Request ci_lane from main
  CommunityCI->>CommunityCI: Validate lane, coordinator ref, and implementation ref
  CommunityCI->>GitHubAPI: Dispatch approved Stable or Dev workflow
  CommunityCI->>GitHubAPI: Publish authorized status
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4c4fd

The updated workflow restricts coordination, publication, and implementation references as intended, with coverage for the changed lane and authorization paths. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (2 skipped: 2… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (8 passed)
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Family Ownership Boundary ✅ Passed No family-ownership boundary violation is introduced. The authoritative diff changes only .github/community-ci.md, .github/workflows/community-ci.yml, and the generic `tools/tests/test_community_c…
Shared Semantic Neutrality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Community CI documentation, the generic GitHub workflow, and CI regression tests. The changed decisions concern workflow entry refs, lane selection, publisher autho…
Benchmark Validation Integrity ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes Community CI coordination, lane selection, publisher authorization, and GitHub status reporting. The authoritative diff does not change benchmark implementations, timing…
Shared Change Blast Radius ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes shared Community CI workflow and validation infrastructure, but it identifies the model-agnostic need: manual Dev publication must not overwrite the shared Stable result…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: restricting Stable result publication to the main coordinator.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the required background, exit criteria, implementation, change category, validation results, environment, remaining gaps, self-review, future notes, and risk rationale. It also …
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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)


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In @.github/workflows/community-ci.yml:
- Line 240: Update the Community CI coordinator flow around the Dev status
context and dispatch handling so coordination always runs from refs/heads/main,
while the validated Dev implementation ref is passed as input data rather than
selected as the workflow ref. Update the corresponding documentation in
community-ci.md and coverage in test_community_ci.py to enforce and describe
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Signed-off-by: yifeif <277870278+yifeif-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
@yifeif-nv yifeif-nv added the run-internal-ci Maintainer-approved dispatch to internal CI label Sep 18, 2026
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