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ci: report corpus baseline drift on a cadence instead of by accident - #2196
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The manifest is current -- a fresh fetch of the corpus regenerates to zero diff, and all 735 files have an entry. #2185/#2189 carried the drift #2186 describes. What is left is the reason it accumulated. The issue attributes it to a path filter on the baseline gate. There is none: `parser-baselines.yml` runs on every PR. The actual mechanism is two deliberate decisions meeting: * A downloaded corpus file with no manifest entry is a WARNING there, not a failure, and the comment saying so is right -- upstream can add a file at any moment and failing would fire on unrelated PRs. But the warning goes to a log nobody reads, so the file sits with no parser-output coverage at all. * That job restores the corpus from a cache keyed on the FETCH SCRIPT and skips the fetch on an exact key hit. CI's corpus is frozen at whatever was fetched when the key was created, while the upstream repositories it mirrors keep moving. Every PR sees the same stale corpus and agrees there is no drift. Neither is wrong on its own, and tightening either has the cost its comment already explains. So this adds the missing third thing: a weekly job that fetches the corpus FRESH -- no cache, which is the entire point -- and turns drift into an issue. It reports, never gates, and closes its own issue when the manifest matches again. The oracle is the repository's own `BASELINE_UPDATE=1` path plus `git diff`, not a Python reimplementation of the fingerprint, which would be a second implementation free to disagree with the Rust one in exactly the cases that matter. Modeled on `nightly-health.yml`, including the self-test that runs first and IS allowed to fail the job: the live check exits 0 whatever it finds, so a broken classifier would otherwise report a permanently reassuring "no drift" -- the same silence this exists to break, wearing a green check. Verified by breaking it two ways (rehash detection disabled, everything reported clean); the self-test catches both. Refs #2186
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Pull request overview
Adds a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow to detect and report drift between the freshly-fetched compatibility corpus and the committed parser baseline manifest, so baseline changes are surfaced on a cadence (via an auto-managed issue) rather than only when an unrelated PR happens to touch the parser.
Changes:
- Adds
scripts/corpus-baseline-drift.pyto regenerate the manifest, compute drift fromgit diff, classify it (added/removed/rehashed), and open/update/close a dedicated issue. - Adds
.github/workflows/corpus-baseline-drift.ymlto run the drift reporter weekly (and on manual dispatch), explicitly fetching the corpus without the corpus cache and running a self-test before the live check.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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| scripts/corpus-baseline-drift.py | Implements manifest regeneration + diff-based drift classification and issue lifecycle management. |
| .github/workflows/corpus-baseline-drift.yml | Schedules the drift check, fetches corpus fresh (no corpus cache), and runs a classifier self-test before reporting. |
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✅ Compatibility Test Results
What's tested
Full results available in workflow artifacts |
Review of the commit before this one. Fetching FRESH is what makes this workflow able to see drift, and it is also what makes it able to invent some. The fetch tolerates up to 15 best-effort clone failures. On the PR gate that is harmless: it restores a cached corpus, so a failed clone still leaves the previous copy on disk -- `fetch-compat-test-files.sh` only `mkdir -p`s its destination and never clears it. This job deliberately skips that cache, so it fetches into an EMPTY checkout, where every tolerated failure is simply missing files. Regenerating against that drops their manifest entries, and the report would have called them "upstream deleted or renamed these" -- a confident lie, longer and more alarming the more repositories happened to fail. So the corpus is counted first, against the same 50-file slack the "Verify corpus is populated" step in `parser-baselines.yml` uses for the same reason. Short by more than that and the run reports nothing and says why. A partial fetch cannot manufacture a false "added" or "rehashed", but it does mean the run saw an unrepresentative corpus, and silence with a reason beats a plausible wrong answer. Two more fixes to `--dry-run`, which regenerates and therefore rewrites the manifest: it now restores the file afterward, because a flag named dry-run must not leave a modified file for someone to commit by accident -- and it does NOT restore it when the manifest was already modified before the run, because `git checkout --` would delete the caller's edits. A reporting script has no business destroying someone's work to keep its own promise. The guard is self-tested in both directions: always-complete (the bug above) and always-refuse (the over-correction that would silence the workflow) each fail it.
`tests/baselines/README.md` documents the CI behavior for this manifest and is where someone goes to understand it, so a second workflow acting on the same file belongs there. Without it the cadence job reads as duplicate coverage, and the natural next move is to delete one. The section names the two reasons the PR gate cannot see this class -- an unmanifested downloaded file warns rather than fails, and the corpus cache is keyed on the fetch script rather than on upstream state -- so the distinction survives past whoever remembers the incident. Also two guards on the script: it refuses to run outside the repository root, where its relative paths and its `git checkout --` would either fail confusingly or resolve somewhere unintended; and the comment about always exiting 0 now says what that covers. Drift is reported rather than gated, but `regenerate()` runs under `check=True`, so a corpus file that panics the parser still fails the step -- that is a real problem on main and nightly-health picks it up from there.
`gh()` returned an empty string when the command failed, which is
indistinguishable from a successful empty result. For a job whose only
output is an issue, that conflation is the worst bug available:
* a failed `issue list` looks like "no existing issue", so the next
run opens a duplicate, every week;
* a failed `issue create` yields a blank URL, prints "opened ", and
leaves the workflow GREEN having reported nothing at all.
The second is exactly the silence this workflow exists to break, wearing
a green check -- the same failure `nightly-health.yml` was written for,
reproduced inside its sibling.
`gh()` now raises `GhError`, and `main` turns that into a non-zero exit.
Finding drift stays exit 0, because a red X for a successful report
would be one more failing scheduled workflow for nobody to notice;
failing to report is the opposite case. A job that cannot say what it
found must not look like a job that found nothing.
Self-tested in both directions by stubbing `subprocess.run`: returning
"" on failure fails the test, and so does raising on a successful empty
result, which is a real and different answer.
Also makes the two list-element string concatenations explicit --
CodeQL's `py/implicit-string-concatenation-in-list`, flagged in review.
Adjacent literals on consecutive lines inside a list read as a missing
comma, and in a list of issue-body paragraphs that is a plausible typo
rather than a pedantic one.
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Fixed in the latest commit — both flagged spots now build the string explicitly. The lead paragraph moved into a Same commit fixes something the review prompted me to go looking for: |
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`_report` decides between opening, updating and closing the issue -- it is the only code in the script that changes anything -- and nothing had ever run it. `--dry-run` returns before reaching it, and a scheduled run exercises exactly one branch per week, so three of its four paths would have shipped unexecuted and the fourth would have been tried in production. All four now run against a recording stub: drift with no open issue creates, drift with an open issue edits THAT issue number, clean with an open issue comments then closes in that order, and clean with no issue touches nothing at all. Each is verified to fail for its own reason -- swapping edit for create, dropping the close, and passing drift to the no-op case each break exactly one assertion. The last one matters most: a `_report` that opened an issue every clean week would still have passed a test that only checked the drift paths. Stdout is captured while they run. Left alone the stub prints "opened https://github.com/x/y/issues/1" into a self-test log, which is the sort of line someone skims and believes.
The baseline test already refuses to write a manifest from fewer than `MIN_FULL_CORPUS_SIZE` (100) files, so a partial fetch cannot silently produce a truncated manifest and a false "no drift" -- checked, and it panics rather than skipping when `BASELINE_UPDATE` is set. That backstop and this check are not redundant, and the note says why: at a corpus of ~735 this one trips at ~685, so a merely partial fetch gets a sentence explaining itself instead of a cargo stack trace, and the test's assert stays what it was written to be -- a last resort against truncating the committed manifest, not the routine path. Someone reading either guard alone would reasonably conclude the other is dead weight.
The "Changed hashes" section told the reader "the diff says which: a
changed source hash is upstream churn; a changed output hash with an
unchanged source hash is a parser change that reached main without
regenerating" -- and then printed a list of paths and no diff. It knew
the answer and sent the reader to find it.
`classify` already had both sides of every changed line, so it now
compares the source hashes and splits the group in two. They are not a
matter of emphasis:
* source hash moved -> the file's contents changed upstream, a
different output hash is expected, routine.
* source hash IDENTICAL, output hash moved -> this repository produces
different output for the same bytes than the
committed baseline records. That is a parser
change that reached main unregenerated, and it
is the reason this job exists.
Collapsed into one list they look the same and read as churn, which is
how the second kind gets skimmed past.
Self-tested in both directions: forcing every rehash to read as upstream
fails, and so does forcing every one to read as a parser change. The
second control is the one that matters -- a split that always cries
"parser change" would be noise nobody acts on within a month.
…mpty Two CodeQL findings from review, both in code this branch added. `py/implicit-string-concatenation-in-list`: nine runs of adjacent string literals now join with an explicit `+`. Wrapping them in parentheses was not enough -- adjacency inside parentheses is still adjacency, and the concern is real for these in particular, since they are paragraphs of an issue body where a missing comma would silently merge two of them rather than raise. Verified the rewrite changed nothing: rendering the same diff through the pre-rewrite and post-rewrite modules gives a byte-identical body (sha e0194f7e3082a81a both sides). `py/empty-except`: the self-test's `except GhError: pass` is the assertion -- reaching that arm is the pass condition and the `failures.append` above it is what runs otherwise -- but nothing said so, and a bare `pass` under an `except` is worth explaining every time.
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All three addressed. Implicit string concatenation — fixed in cdbfd0d, nine runs now join with an explicit Empty except — same commit. Reaching that arm is the assertion (the
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Refs #2186.
Part 1 is already done
The manifest is current. On a clean checkout with a freshly fetched corpus:
./scripts/fetch-compat-test-files.sh→ 735 files./scripts/regen-corpus-baselines.sh→ zero diff#2185/#2189 carried the 3 modified hashes and 20 additions the issue lists. Nothing left to regenerate.
The stated cause isn't the cause
The issue says the gate is path-filtered. It isn't —
parser-baselines.ymlhas nopaths:filter and its header says it runs on every PR. The real mechanism is two deliberate decisions meeting:An unmanifested downloaded file is a warning, not a failure. That's correct as written: upstream can add a file at any moment, and failing would turn unrelated PRs red. But the warning goes to a CI log nobody reads, so the file sits with no parser-output coverage at all.
CI's corpus is frozen. The job restores
tests/compatibility/filesfrom a cache keyed onhashFiles('scripts/fetch-compat-test-files.sh'), and the fetch step is skipped on an exact key hit. The key changes when the script changes — never when upstream does. So CI keeps replaying whatever corpus existed when that key was created, and every PR agrees there's no drift.Neither is wrong alone, and tightening either costs exactly what its own comment explains. What's missing is a third thing that looks at a corpus nobody has frozen.
What this adds
A weekly job that fetches the corpus fresh — no cache, which is the entire point — regenerates, and turns any drift into an issue. It reports; it never gates; it closes its own issue when the manifest matches again.
The issue body separates the three cases, because they need different responses:
The oracle is the repository's own
BASELINE_UPDATE=1path plusgit diff— not a Python reimplementation of the fingerprint, which would be a second implementation of the thing under test, free to disagree with the Rust one in precisely the cases that matter.Self-test
Modeled on
nightly-health.yml, including the self-test that runs before the live check and is allowed to fail the job. The live check exits 0 whatever it finds, so a broken classifier would otherwise report a permanently reassuring "no drift" — the same silence this workflow exists to break, wearing a green check.Verified it can fail, two ways:
rehashed = [])It also pins that an empty diff reports clean and that comment-only lines aren't drift, so it can report both answers rather than only the alarming one.
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