Github pages not deploying

[barnett11]

Background Information

Pages deployment is constantly failing and not updating our documentation. It works locally using pkgdown, @cicdguy would you have any recommendations please?

Definition of Done

No response

[cicdguy]

Hi @barnett11

I'm not seeing the failures. Can you post the links to the failed workflows here?

[barnett11]

Hi @barnett11

I'm not seeing the failures. Can you post the links to the failed workflows here?

Apologies - see here thanks @cicdguy - if you look at the Actions it always has a failure and a success, but the failure seems to be the main one being used as documentation is not matching what we're submitting
https://github.com/pharmaverse/datacutr/actions/runs/12272971290/job/34242823923

[cicdguy]

I see. If you expand the Annotations section on that job summary, it tells you why it was canceled.

This means that another deployment was already in progress, and the job request was canceled to prioritize the one that triggered before it.

This means that there are multiple deployments to gh-pages going on. Let's see what those are.

[cicdguy]

Ok I see what's happening.

tl;dr

I'll fix this.

Long explanation

We made some major performance improvements for the multiversion docs (the Versions dropdown in the site navbar that lets you choose between main and devel).

When the docs via pkgdown::build_site() get published to gh-pages, it triggers the GitHub-managed "pages build and deployment" job.

While the first instance of "pages build and deployment" job is triggered, the multiversion docs job triggers and finishes very quickly (due to the performance improvements). Then, it triggers another instance of the "pages build and deployment" job.

Due to the way the concurrency features work for the "pages build and deployment" job, the first job takes precedence and the second one is automatically canceled.

[barnett11]

Many thanks @cicdguy , the Actions were now successful for building the pages. Many thanks for the help as always!