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starr-openai d666238b40 Shard Bazel Windows tests across jobs (#22408)
## Summary
- split the single PR-blocking Bazel Windows test leg into four Windows
shard jobs
- preserve the existing required Windows Bazel check name with a
lightweight aggregate gate
- keep Linux/macOS Bazel test jobs and the separate Windows
clippy/release jobs unchanged

## Why
The ordinary PR Windows Bazel test leg was one GitHub Actions job, so
Bazel only had in-job parallelism. This gives that lane real job-level
fanout across separate Windows hosts while keeping the target set
disjoint via stable label hashing.

## Evidence
- final pre-rebase green run: `25774733562`
- Windows shard target counts: `61/212`, `48/212`, `52/212`, `51/212`
- Windows test fanout completed in about 7m29s versus a recent
monolithic median around 22m26s

## Notes
- this is scoped to the Bazel Windows test leg only
- each shard keeps the existing Windows cross-compile/RBE path and
restores the former monolithic Windows test cache
- shard jobs do not upload duplicate repository caches after test work,
keeping cache cleanup off the PR-blocking shard path
- no local validation run; relying on GitHub Actions for the
workflow-shaped check

Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-05-13 12:46:51 -07:00
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Workflow Strategy

The workflows in this directory are split so that pull requests get fast, review-friendly signal while main still gets the full cross-platform verification pass.

Pull Requests

  • bazel.yml is the main pre-merge verification path for Rust code. It runs Bazel test and Bazel clippy on the supported Bazel targets, including the generated Rust test binaries needed to lint inline #[cfg(test)] code.
  • rust-ci.yml keeps the Cargo-native PR checks intentionally small:
    • cargo fmt --check
    • cargo shear
    • argument-comment-lint on Linux, macOS, and Windows
    • tools/argument-comment-lint package tests when the lint or its workflow wiring changes

Post-Merge On main

  • bazel.yml also runs on pushes to main. This re-verifies the merged Bazel path and helps keep the BuildBuddy caches warm.
  • rust-ci-full.yml is the full Cargo-native verification workflow. It keeps the heavier checks off the PR path while still validating them after merge:
    • the full Cargo clippy matrix
    • the full Cargo nextest matrix
    • release-profile Cargo builds
    • cross-platform argument-comment-lint
    • Linux remote-env tests

Rule Of Thumb

  • If a build/test/clippy check can be expressed in Bazel, prefer putting the PR-time version in bazel.yml.
  • Keep rust-ci.yml fast enough that it usually does not dominate PR latency.
  • Reserve rust-ci-full.yml for heavyweight Cargo-native coverage that Bazel does not replace yet.