Automatic file updates make occasional drat workflow failures

[GegznaV]

There is a known issue related to the automatic distribution of files to several repos: the push from pkg-skeleton to other repos triggers GHA workflows on those repos, including drat workflow. The drat workflow tries to push updates to pkg-repo. But when updates from many packages are pushed at the same time, some workflows fail. See details here:

A manual restart of the failed drat workflow usually fixes the failure. But I think, we should find a way to disable triggering the drat workflow if the updates come from pkg-skeleton as these are usually setup files that update the infrastructure but do not change the functionality in the package.

Might help:

• https://github.community/t/how-to-stop-github-actions-workflow-to-trigger-when-the-pull-request-is-from-dependabot-preview/116486/2

[GegznaV]

This issue is not solved yet.

I thought that GitHub actor, who commits to other repos is GitHub bot but it seems to be @cbeleites. The reason, I think, is the fact that DEPLOY_TOKEN that is used to push commits was generated by Claudia.

More investigation is needed to solve this issue.