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Summary

Implement ADR-080 so kubectl describe shows lifecycle transitions for Certification, Workflow, Job, and WorkloadRun. InProgress and Succeeded transitions emit Normal Events; Failed transitions emit Warnings. Events use the persisted condition's reason and message, emit only after successful status writes, and suppress repeated phases and reason/message-only updates.

Add separate Job hardware and validation verdict Events, including ThresholdsMet, and the Workflow-driven JobTimedOut Event on the Job. Preserve concurrent terminal Job decisions during status retries. Keep action-failure diagnostics when status persistence fails, and preserve Certification's specific WorkflowFailed reason after rejected Workflow creation.

Add UID-scoped Event integration goldens, a bounded collection deadline, and recorder-level coverage for retries, failed writes, fallback warnings, polling-message changes, and checkpoint restart. Mark the ADR accepted and document operator-facing Event semantics. Measurement reconcilers retain their action warnings; their outcomes are reported through Job verdicts, as specified by ADR-080.

Related Issue

Closes #252

Implements the design merged in #338.

Type of Change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 💥 Breaking change
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 🔧 Refactoring
  • 🔨 Build/CI

Component(s) Affected

  • API / CRDs
  • Controller / Reconcilers
  • Catalog / Workloads
  • CLI (nvcrectl)
  • Helm / Deployment
  • Documentation / CI
  • Other: integration harness and controller regression tests

Testing

  • Tests pass locally
  • Manual testing completed
  • No breaking changes (or documented)

Validation: make manifests generate, make lint-fix, make ci, and git diff --check.

The automated suite covers successful and failed lifecycle transitions, hardware and threshold verdicts, timeout/pod-drain re-entry, rejected Workflow creation, status-write failures and conflict retries, fallback recovery, checkpoint restart, and changing polling messages. Event goldens assert API persistence; recorder assertions count emissions before API aggregation.

Manual Kind + KWOK validation on this implementation:

  • An H100 NCCL Certification and the H100 WorkloadRun fixture completed successfully, with one start and one completion Event per participating lifecycle tier.
  • An intentionally invalid override produced one Workflow OverrideError and one WorkloadRun WorkflowFailed Warning.
  • A short Job timeout produced one Job JobTimedOut, one Workflow IterationsFailed, and one WorkloadRun WorkflowFailed Warning.
  • After five annotation-update rounds, each observed transition still had one Event row with count 1.

KWOK simulates workload completion; these checks validate lifecycle propagation and Events, not GPU execution or performance measurements. The full catalog UAT suite was not run for this controller change.

Risk Assessment

  • Events remain best-effort diagnostics. A crash after a status write can lose its Event; status remains authoritative.
  • Terminal failures now emit Warning Events. Consumers must distinguish transition reasons from retained action warnings.
  • The Job retry guard preserves a concurrent terminal decision instead of replacing it with a stale workload observation. The existing timeout condition shape, including simultaneous InProgress and Failed conditions, is unchanged.
  • Existing OverrideNoOp and transient WorkloadCreationError warnings can still appear during successful runs; they are separate from transition deduplication.
  • No CRD schema, RBAC, chart, or dependency changes.

Checklist

  • Self-review completed
  • Commits are signed off for the DCO (git commit -s)
  • make manifests generate run (no API type changes)
  • Golden files updated (opted-in Event cases and dedicated regression fixtures)
  • Documentation updated
  • Ready for review

Implement ADR-080 phase and verdict Events across Job, Workflow, Certification, and WorkloadRun. Emit only after successful status persistence, suppress same-phase updates, and retain action warnings when persistence fails.

Preserve concurrent terminal Job decisions during status retries. Stage timeout and success fixtures through their real lifecycle, and cover validation errors, rejected creates, checkpoint restart, polling-message churn, and failed-write recovery.

Add UID-scoped Event goldens and bounded collection, consolidate recorder test setup, and document the accepted ADR and troubleshooting guidance.

Refs NVIDIA#252

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <kaynet@nvidia.com>
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The change adds deduplicated phase-transition Events across controllers. Status updates now return transition details and protect terminal states during retries. Workflow creation failures preserve creation and status-write errors. Integration tests add cumulative deadlines, staged waits, recorder observation, persisted Event collection, and checkpoint replacement checks. Documentation covers lifecycle Events and retention.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: implementing ADR-080 phase-transition Events.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the phase-transition Event implementation, affected controllers, tests, documentation, and integration changes.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies the coding requirements in #252. Controller status updates report only true condition transitions after successful persistence, including conflict retries. Certification, Workflow, Jo…
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Review (ADR-080 phase-transition events)

Tip reviewed: 01a04aaf8d6dbfd2f5fa54362b6561b7780cc58c. CI green on this SHA (Test, Lint, UAT/Kind+KWOK, Build, Analyze Go, DCO, generated-files verify, etc.). No prior human reviews.

This is a careful implementation of Accepted ADR-080, not a drive-by Event sprinkle. Approving.

What lines up well

  • Flip ≠ changed. conditionFlip / conditionTransition ignore reason/message/ObservedGeneration/extra-only edits; exclusive wrappers and setJobFailed emit only when the true type changes, and only after a successful write. That is the whole point of splitting #252 from #250.
  • Conflict-retry correctness. Transition is cleared and recomputed inside each mutate attempt (setExclusiveStatusConditionUnless), so a stale pre-retry flip cannot leak into an emit. WorkloadRun’s setWorkloadRunConditionAndUpdate mirrors the same before/after rule at its direct-update seam without forcing it onto the shared helper.
  • Decision 5 fallbacks. Same-reason pre-write Warnings at WorkloadRun BuildFailed, Workflow HeterogeneousPlatform, and both OverrideError sites are moved to distinct *StatusUpdateFailed reasons on failed persistence; successful paths notify only via the Failed transition. Certification’s typed workflowCreateRejectedError stops the catch-all from rewriting WorkflowFailed → WorkflowValidationFailed, so Events and Conditions stay aligned.
  • Job verdicts + timeout hook. HardwareFailed / ValidationFailed (including absent→False ThresholdsMet) and the Workflow-driven JobTimedOut write are hooked as specified, including emit-against-Job from the Workflow recorder and no duplicate on pod-drain re-entry.
  • Concurrent terminal preservation. Routing Job exclusive writes through setExclusiveStatusConditionUnless(..., r.isTerminalState) so a conflict retry cannot replace a Workflow timeout / Succeeded winner with a stale workload observation is a real correctness win; TestJobPhaseWritePreservesConcurrentTerminalDecision pins it (including no Event on the discarded attempt).
  • Harness. UID-filtered events/v1 projections, opt-in events: blocks, cumulative deadline, and recorder-level counters for node-poll / checkpoint-restart match the ADR’s testing-method amendments. Goldens I spot-checked (rejected Create, threshold fail/pass, timeout, early override) match the promised shapes.

Residual (non-blocking)

  1. Branch state: tip is diverged from main (behind_by: 1). Rebase before merge so CI re-runs on a current base.
  2. Deferred status shape (already in ADR): timed-out Jobs still carry InProgress=True beside Failed=True, and that write still uses a bare Status().Update without the shared retry helper. Fine to leave as a follow-up record; just do not treat this PR as having closed that exclusivity gap.
  3. Coverage preference (optional): workflow-job-timeout waits for Workflow Failed but only goldens Job Events. A sibling expect row for the Workflow terminal Warning would lock the manual Kind/KWOK sequence end-to-end; other Workflow Failed cases already cover the generic path.
  4. Docs nit: ADR narrative still illustrates Job start as WorkloadCreated in several places; fixtures that enter mid-flight correctly show WorkloadRunning as the first InProgress Event. Harmless if readers treat those snippets as the create-path happy path, not as every golden’s literal first row.

No blocker findings on design fidelity, emit-after-write safety, or dedup. Thanks for the thorough recorder + envtest matrix.

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Read through this closely and ran the suite locally against 01a04aa. The design is sound and most of the implementation is exactly right: transitions are computed inside the retry callback and reset per attempt, emission sits strictly after a successful write, transitionEventType takes each tier's own Failed constant so a terminal failure cannot render as Normal, no user string is ever used as a format string, and Event projections are filtered by fresh UID so a name-reusing case cannot contaminate a golden. workflowCreateRejectedError also fixes a real status bug: on the base branch the generic catch-all rewrote the persisted reason from WorkflowFailed to WorkflowValidationFailed.

Two things I would like resolved before this merges, one I would like soon after, and a few follow-ups.

Blocking

  1. docs/operations/troubleshooting.md:25-27 promises a verdict Event that most runs never emit. checkPerformanceThresholds returns at job_controller.go:738-740 when len(job.Spec.Thresholds) == 0, and reasonThresholdsMet has exactly one non-test write site, job_controller.go:793, inside that function. Both callers go through the same early return, so no other path can emit it. Only the communication/nccl-* catalog entries set thresholds:; training/nemotron5-* and diagnostics/dcgm-level4 set none, as does any hand-written Job or WorkloadRun. That makes this the common case rather than an edge case. The sentence needs a no-thresholds clause.

  2. ADR-080 does not describe the stop / isTerminalState guard, and this commit flips the record to Accepted. To be clear about which way this cuts: the guard is correct and it is load-bearing. I reverted both Job call sites to plain setExclusiveStatusCondition and it emits an Event in 4 of the 6 combinations that TestJobPhaseWritePreservesConcurrentTerminalDecision covers, including a Warning WorkloadFailed on a Job the Workflow had already given Warning JobTimedOut. The ADR's flip-detection premise at :149-152 does not hold at this seam, because the timeout write is additive and leaves JobInProgress=True, so trueConditionType resolves the before-type to InProgress and the retry does see a flip. The problem is only that the record says the opposite: :435 is "Keep changed and its semantics" and :445-447 says setJobFailed keeps its extra closure "unchanged; only the post-write emission is added". Please add a paragraph covering the guard and its two consequences: changed no longer implies a landed write, and recordJobStatus therefore leaves nvcre_job_status at in_progress=1 for a timed-out Job permanently, since the series is only removed on Job deletion and timed-out Jobs are kept for the report.

Strong should-fix, fine as an immediate follow-up

  1. Event notes over 1024 bytes are rejected outright by the API server, so no Event object is created at all. I reproduced it end to end through the real controller path: patching job-trainjob-fail's TrainJob failure message to 1116 characters produces Server rejected event (will not retry!) ... message: Invalid value: "": can have at most 1024 characters, and the case then fails on missing Events. client-go performs no truncation (tools/events/event_recorder.go:66 and :110 pass the note through verbatim) and does not retry. The class predates this PR and its worst instance is already on main, which is why I am not making it a gate. But this PR now routes persisted condition messages into notes at all four tiers, while CRD conditions[].message allows 32768 characters, and it adds a new length-scaling site at workflow_controller.go:2482-2486. One truncation helper in the shared eventf wrappers covers it. Worth noting that six reconcilers call Recorder.Eventf, not four: goodputmeasurement_controller.go:1523 and bandwidthmeasurement_controller.go:566 bypass the transition wrappers.

Follow-ups, not gates

  1. The new workloadrun-event-success case is timing-flaky. It failed 2 of 8 runs under -race on timed out waiting for condition Succeeded on WorkloadRun/event-success-run, and passed 16 of 16 without. See the inline note for the root cause, which is a pre-existing race this PR makes operator-visible.

  2. job-bandwidth-threshold-pass swapping bandwidthMeasurement.minBusBandwidthGBps for thresholds.busBandwidthGBps drops the only integration coverage of the legacy minBusBandwidthGBps field. Worth restoring somewhere.

  3. The transient "existing Workflow is being deleted; retrying" path at certification_controller.go:585-602 produces 0 Events on ccc8991 and 1 Warning WorkflowValidationFailed here. The code is byte-identical to the base and the underlying misclassification (a retry path that writes Failed=True) is pre-existing, so this PR only makes it audible. Worth a separate issue rather than a change here.

  4. Optional test additions: a stop: true case in the transition golden, since the input schema already has a conflictWinner knob; and asserting message and count in the event readiness gate at integration_test.go:1171-1172, which currently keys only on {type, reason}.

One small correction to my own earlier read, in case it came up elsewhere: moving the HeterogeneousPlatform and OverrideError Warnings post-write does not remove a per-requeue re-emission. On the base branch that Warning already fired exactly once, because the following setWorkflowFailed succeeds and reconcileJob short-circuits on isTerminal. What the move actually buys is that the Warning no longer claims a Failed phase before the write that would persist it. Still worth doing, just for a different reason.

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Follow-up #352 tracks the pre-existing informer-ordering race behind the workloadrun-event-success flake: a transient Workflow cache miss can be misclassified as WorkflowDeleted. This PR hardens the fixture without changing production behavior; the controller fix remains scoped to that issue.

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <kaynet@nvidia.com>

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🟡 Minor · Include Count in the Event sort key. · integration_test.go:1244-1251

cmd/integration/integration_test.go:1244-1251
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Include Count in the Event sort key.

eventProjection.Count is serialized by json.MarshalIndent. The collection emits one projection per matching API Event, so projections can have equal compared fields but different counts. The comparator treats them as equal, allowing API-list order to change the golden output. Add Count as the final comparison field.

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compareEventProjections to include eventProjection.Count as the final comparison
key after the existing InvolvedObject.Name comparison, preserving the current
field ordering and ensuring projections with different counts sort
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🟡 Minor · Apply the cumulative deadline to the remaining API calls. · integration_test.go:790-791

cmd/integration/integration_test.go:790-791
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Apply the cumulative deadline to the remaining API calls.

waitForCondition passes context.Background() to getObject inside require.Eventually. A blocked client.Client.Get can therefore outlive boundedWaitTimeout and keep the test blocked. The same issue exists in deleteAfterWait, waitForDeletion, verifyFrozenGoodput, and the final collection reads. Use contextForDeadline(deadline) for these helpers and pass the derived context to every client operation, including Update. The step patches and event polling already use deadline-derived contexts.

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In `@cmd/integration/integration_test.go` around lines 790 - 791, Update
waitForCondition, deleteAfterWait, waitForDeletion, verifyFrozenGoodput, and the
final collection-read flows to derive contexts with contextForDeadline(deadline)
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In `@cmd/integration/integration_test.go`:
- Around line 1244-1251: Update compareEventProjections to include
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InvolvedObject.Name comparison, preserving the current field ordering and
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- Around line 790-791: Update waitForCondition, deleteAfterWait,
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Addressed both CodeRabbit outside-diff findings in 57305ed: Event projections now use count as the final deterministic sort key, and all API operations inside ADR-080’s cumulative case budget use the deadline-derived context (including spec immutability verification and final collection). Full verification passed.

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🟠 Major · Recover the existing Workflow after the status write fails. · workloadrun_controller.go:122-125

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Recover the existing Workflow after the status write fails. When r.Create succeeds but r.setWorkloadRunConditionAndUpdate fails, the WorkflowRef assignment and WorkloadRunInProgress condition are not persisted. The next reconcile enters the apierrors.IsAlreadyExists branch, which only requeues. The WorkloadRun remains without its Workflow association or phase. Recover the existing Workflow and persist the association and status in that branch.

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🟡 Minor · Guard hardware status updates after refetch. · job_controller.go:1115-1164

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Guard hardware status updates after refetch. A stale non-terminal reconcile can call setJobHardwareFailed. If the update conflicts, its retry closure can refetch a Job that is now Succeeded or Failed, then unconditionally set FailedNodes and HardwareFailed=True. This also triggers the warning and hardware-failure metrics. The execution-condition setters already apply the terminal-state guard, but this closure does not. Check r.isTerminalState(j) before the hardware mutations and return without updating when the refetched Job is terminal.

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In `@pkg/controller/job_controller.go` around lines 1115 - 1164, The retry closure
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terminal, return without updating FailedNodes or HardwareFailed, warning, or
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CodeRabbit’s latest outside-diff notes on 57305ed:

Recover the existing Workflow after the status write fails (workloadrun_controller.go:122-125) — valid stuck path, not introduced here. Create can succeed and the status write can still fail, so workflowRef never lands. The next reconcile hits AlreadyExists at :106-108 and only requeues; that branch is unchanged since 908cb14c. Blindly adopting the existing Workflow is not the fix: Certification already refuses foreign name collisions (certification_controller.go:582-604). Tracked in #354.

Guard hardware status updates after refetch (job_controller.go:1115-1164) — not applying. The exclusive-phase isTerminalState guard is for InProgress/Succeeded/Failed writes. ADR-080 says hardware and validation verdict writes stay independent of that guard, and Succeeded + HardwareFailed is the documented outcome when hardware fails during a run. Reconcile already skips starting a health check once the Job is terminal (:201-203). setJobValidationStatus uses the same retry shape because thresholds run after Succeeded; putting the phase guard on that family of setters would drop those verdicts.

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Re-review (tip 606059f)

Prior APPROVE was on 01a04aa. Tip moved through 2a09b58 (ndipebot findings) → 57305ed (Event-collection determinism) → 606059f (merge main). CI green on this SHA. Re-checked the prior gaps; approving again.

Prior gaps — closed

  1. Troubleshooting Event overclaim. docs/operations/troubleshooting.md now states WorkloadCompleted is unconditional, and that ThresholdsMet / validation-failure Events exist only when thresholds are configured. Matches the no-threshold goldens.

  2. ADR stop / isTerminalState record. ADR-080 Implementation now documents setExclusiveStatusConditionUnless: refreshed-object guard before mutation, changed=false / no transition when Succeeded or Failed is already True, skipped extra on the discarded attempt, and the consequence that changed is not proof a write landed. Status stays Accepted with the shipped behavior described rather than contradicted.

  3. Testing-plan amendment for verifyNodePollEvents. Dedup bullet now records the recorder-count exception for the time-dependent countdown message, parallel to the checkpoint-restart amendment.

  4. Event-note 1024-byte cap. formatEventNote truncates with UTF-8 safety and ... [truncated]; all six recorder wrappers (Job, Workflow, Certification, WorkloadRun, Goodput, Bandwidth) route through it with a literal "%s". Unit boundary + envtest persistence coverage present. Troubleshooting documents the limit and points operators at status conditions for the full message.

  5. workloadrun-event-success flake. Fixture now starts from persisted InProgress + an existing Succeeded Workflow and goldens only Normal/WorkflowSucceeded. Production informer-ordering race remains #352 — correct split.

  6. Harness determinism (57305ed). Event projection sort key includes Count; API ops inside the cumulative Event budget use the deadline-derived context (waits, deletion, frozen-goodput, spec-immutability, final collect).

What still looks right

Emit-after-successful-write, flip ≠ reason/message churn, conflict-retry recomputation, Job terminal preservation via Unless, and Decision 5 fallbacks are unchanged in substance from 01a04aa and still hold on this tip.

Residual (non-blocking, unchanged)

  • #352 still owns the production WorkflowDeleted misclassification on informer lag; this PR correctly hardens the fixture without pretending to fix the controller path.
  • Timed-out Jobs can still carry InProgress=True beside Failed=True (additive Workflow timeout write). Exclusivity repair remains a separate follow-up, as previously noted.
  • CodeRabbit’s “recover Workflow after status write fails” path is pre-existing / tracked (#354 per author); not introduced here.

No remaining blocker from the prior COMMENT set. Thanks for the precise follow-ups.

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formatEventNote is correct on the byte boundary: I confirmed against an envtest apiserver that a 1024-byte note is accepted and 1025 is rejected, and that reverting the six call sites reproduces the original rejection on the node-shortfall path. The wrote = false pin is real too: deleting that line now fails four subcases of TestJobPhaseWritePreservesConcurrentTerminalDecision, and restoring the pre-review test file makes the same mutation green again. On the dedup bullet, removing the guard at pkg/controller/status.go:221 fails certification-event-progress with expected 1, actual 5, so the ADR text now describes something that exists.

Build and merge hygiene are clean at 606059f: go build, go vet, the full ./pkg/..., ./test/... and ./cmd/... suites with envtest, -race, -shuffle=on, make manifests generate a no-op, and the main merge byte-identical to ccc8991..d90b5ff.

Three of the inline comments below I would like resolved before this goes in: the waitForDeletion deadline hole, the WorkloadRun coverage gap, and the workloadrun-mpi behavior under -race. The remaining two are low priority.

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Release scope clarification following the latest review:

Reject deletion-wait false positives, isolate MPI terminal-event coverage, and bound malformed UTF-8 truncation. Record the WorkloadRun lifecycle coverage gap and require issue NVIDIA#352 before releasing ADR-080.

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <kaynet@nvidia.com>
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Re-review (tip b8ae291)

Prior APPROVE on 606059f is stale. Tip moved through bbddc08 (ndipebot follow-ups) → b8ae291 (merge main). Test SUCCESS on this SHA (CI Test). Branch is current with main (behind_by: 0). Approving again.

Prior gaps since 606059f — closed in bbddc08

  1. waitForDeletion false positive. Predicate is now ctx.Err() == nil && IsNotFound(err) via readObject, with an explicit post-wait ctx.Err() check. TestWaitForDeletionRejectsReadFailures (subprocess) pins that deadline / Forbidden reads do not satisfy deletion; TestWaitForDeletionPropagatesDeadline pins the shared case deadline.

  2. getObject error collapse. readObject preserves Get / context errors; getObject returns nil only on NotFound and fails the test otherwise. TestReadObjectPreservesErrors covers Canceled, DeadlineExceeded, Forbidden, and transport errors.

  3. WorkloadRun lifecycle coverage honesty. ADR testing plan now records the known gap pending #352: success fixture asserts only terminal Normal / WorkflowSucceeded from a pre-persisted InProgress + existing Succeeded Workflow; fake-client recorder test is explicitly not a substitute for Reconcile / API-level creation coverage. Release prerequisite text matches the author note (do not ship ADR-080 without #352).

  4. workloadrun-mpi race exposure. initializeWorkloadRun: true runs initial reconcile on the direct API client before the manager cache starts; golden asserts only terminal Warning / WorkflowFailed and does not accept WorkflowDeleted.

  5. Threshold testing-plan wording. Bullet now states fixtures pre-create the TrainJob and do not assert WorkloadCreated.

  6. formatEventNote binary / over-truncation. Walk-back is bounded to utf8.UTFMax and only shortens when a valid rune crosses the cutoff; TestFormatEventNoteBinaryInput covers continuation-byte runs.

Still holds from earlier reviews

Emit-after-successful-write, flip ≠ reason/message churn, conflict-retry recomputation inside Unless, Job terminal preservation (wrote = false / skipped extra), Decision 5 fallbacks, and the 1024-byte note cap across all six recorder wrappers remain intact on this tip.

Residual (non-blocking)

  • #352 still owns the production WorkflowDeleted misclassification; this PR correctly scopes the fixture hardenings and documents the release gate.
  • Timed-out Jobs can still carry InProgress=True beside Failed=True (additive Workflow timeout write). Exclusivity repair remains a separate follow-up.
  • CodeRabbit’s “recover Workflow after status write fails” path remains pre-existing / #354.

No remaining blocker from the 606059f COMMENT set. Thanks for the precise follow-ups.

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Went through the round-2 fixes the same way, by reverting each one and checking whether anything actually fails. All seven are addressed and five are properly pinned. readObject and getObject in particular are clean: swallowing the error again fails TestReadObjectPreservesErrors, removing the ctx.Err() pre-check fails it too, and deleting the NotFound arm takes down 30 integration cases. The workloadrun-mpi flake is genuinely fixed rather than relocated, 15/15 clean against 2/10 at 606059f, and running the first reconcile before startManager is the right shape. I also checked that the per-tier requirement at docs/designs/080-phase-transition-events.md:625-626 is byte-identical to the old :618-619, so nothing was weakened to fit, and the #352 gap and release gate are recorded honestly.

Worth saying plainly: measured against main, this PR is net-additive on coverage. Executed cases go 767 to 773 across cmd/integration and pkg/controller, six pure additions and zero removals.

What I am raising below is not leftover review comments. It is three things the fix commit itself introduced, one of which is in the same function my last comment was about. Only the first is blocking for me.

Verified at b8ae291: go build ./..., go vet, and ./pkg/controller/ all clean after the main merge, which touched none of the implementation files.

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Normalize invalid UTF-8 before applying the Event note byte limit and verify persistence through the API server. Avoid fatal assertions in polling goroutines and reject unknown fixture kinds before polling.

Clarify ADR examples and explicitly require restoration of WorkloadRun WorkflowCreated coverage with NVIDIA#352 before release.

Signed-off-by: Kayne Tu <kaynet@nvidia.com>
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/ok to test 8419035

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/lgtm
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/ok-to-test 893880c

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Re-review (tip 893880c)

Prior APPROVE on b8ae291 is stale. Tip moved through 258af6f (ndipebot round-3 hardenings) → 8419035 (merge main / #360–#362) → 5d94e5a (merge #363) → 893880c (merge #364). Actual tip is 893880c5dc4477dd6ff3ad0e25c4c414c4a1948a, not the previously expected 8419035. Branch is current with main (behind_by: 0). Full CI was green on 8419035; checks on this tip are re-running after the #364 merge.

Gaps since b8ae291 — closed in 258af6f

  1. Event-note JSON expansion. formatEventNote now runs strings.ToValidUTF8(..., "\uFFFD") before the 1,024-byte budget, so isolated invalid bytes that expand threefold on the wire cannot push the note past the events/v1 limit. Binary-input unit cases assert JSON round-trips; TestBinaryEventNotePersistsWithinAPILimit drives a real broadcaster through envtest.

  2. Polling FailNow. waitForCondition / finalizer-strip Eventually closures call readObject and return false on error instead of getObject's fatal assertion. Unknown kinds are rejected up front via rejectUnknownKind / objectForKind (with errUnknownKind), and TestWaitForDeletionRejectsUnknownKind pins the fast-fail path.

  3. ADR honesty. Examples now show WorkloadRunning for the mid-flight timeout fixture; the #352 release gate explicitly requires restoring API-level Normal / WorkflowCreated coverage (none remains after the MPI expect reduction).

Still holds

Emit-after-successful-write, flip ≠ reason/message churn, conflict-retry recomputation inside Unless, Job terminal preservation (wrote = false / skipped extra), Decision 5 fallbacks, and the 1,024-byte note path across all six recorder wrappers are unchanged in substance from b8ae291.

Main merges since then (#360–#364) are deps / release / Fern register and do not touch the ADR-080 controller seams.

Residual (non-blocking, unchanged)

  • #352 still owns production WorkflowDeleted misclassification and WorkloadRun creation-to-success Event coverage restoration.
  • Timed-out Jobs can still carry InProgress=True beside Failed=True.
  • Pre-existing Workflow-recover-after-status-write-fails path remains #354.

No blocker from the b8ae291 COMMENT set or the 258af6f follow-ups. Approving on tip 893880c.

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[Feature]: Emit Normal events on phase transitions across all six reconcilers

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