For a fork PR the build step is skipped -- the images come from the
privileged run -- so the job went green in 29 seconds while that run was
still pushing. Everything gated on it inherited the lie: the DNS test
pulled arch 3m30s too early on one run and 53s too early on the next,
both times 'manifest unknown', and the four deploy chunks were spared
only by starting later.
The job now polls until every distro image for its tag is in the
registry. It runs unconditionally: where the job built the images itself
the first poll passes, and a push that silently failed is caught too.
The poll drives scripts/meta/resolve/missing/ci_images.sh, which already
owned that check for the release workflow, so the ref shape is not
written a fourth time. A resolver that cannot run aborts with 2 rather
than reading as 'not yet pushed' and hiding behind the full budget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 5