ci: nightly builds no longer exhaust the artifact storage quota - #28
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Nightly releases have failed every day since 2026-08-12 with "Artifact storage quota has been hit", so the newest desktop build is from 08-11. The org's Team plan includes 2 GB-month of Actions storage, which GitHub meters as 1460 GB-hours. The four desktop-* artifacts total ~915 MB per run, so a daily nightly bills 0.915 * retention_days * 730 GB-hours. The previous 7-day cap bills ~4665 of 1460, over triple the budget, which is why capping retention at a week did not stop the quota from refilling. Drop desktop-* to 1 day (~666 GB-hours, 46% of budget) and give wsl-node-pty-x64 the retention it was missing — it inherited the 90-day repository default despite being consumed by the Windows build in the same run. Both artifacts are intra-run handoffs; the GitHub Release is the durable copy of the installers. Written by Claude Opus 5 in Pylon.
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Problem
Nightly releases have failed every day since 2026-08-12 — runs 31585789218, 31689516095, and 31790479914 all died at their first artifact upload with:
The schedule fires fine; nothing downstream of the upload ever starts, so the newest desktop build users can get is from 08-11. Every PR merged since then is on
pylonbut unpackaged.26f01c0a2already cappeddesktop-*retention at 7 days for this reason, but the quota refilled anyway, because 7 days was never sized against the actual budget.Fix
The org's Team plan includes 2 GB-month of Actions storage, which GitHub meters as
2 * 730 = 1460GB-hours. The fourdesktop-*artifacts total ~915 MB per run, so a daily nightly bills0.915 * retention_days * 730GB-hours:August peaked at 14.4 GB/day and closed the month's allowance at 1,488 of 1,460 GB-hours.
desktop-*drops to 1 day. It is an intra-run handoff topublish_release, which attaches the installers to the GitHub Release — that Release is the durable copy, and Release assets do not count against Actions storage.wsl-node-pty-x64gets theretention-daysit was missing. It is consumed by the Windows build in the same run but silently inherited the 90-day repository default.resource-monitor-*stays at 7 days: 1.2 MB per run is ~8 MB steady state.Also done outside this PR
Deleted the 143 stale artifacts (933 MB) created before
26f01c0a2, all still on the 90-day default. Live artifact storage is now 0 MB. Verifiedv0.0.33-nightly.20260811.54has all 15 assets attached before deleting its build artifacts.Current verification
pylonvp fmt --check .github/workflows/release.ymlgit diff --checkStill needs a human
This PR caps future growth but cannot refund August's spent allowance, and the Actions spending limit is
$0, so uploads stay blocked until it is raised or the allowance resets on 09-01. Raising the limit is the only thing that unblocks tonight's nightly.Written by Claude Opus 5 in Pylon.
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