[KyleFromNVIDIA]

If a project goes for an extended period of time without a successful nightly run, they sometimes temporarily increase their maximum days without success. Rather than doing that, provide a mechanism to ignore failures until a specific day, so that the max days without success never needs to be updated, and the temporary measure stays temporary, even if the until-date is never removed.

This mechanism supersedes all other checks if it passes, meaning if the current date is less than the until-date, GitHub is never checked for successful workflows.

[KyleFromNVIDIA]

Another idea: if the workflow is found to not have any passes in the last X days, but it had a pass in the last X days before the temporary extension, then it must pass again, even if it's before the extension date, ensuring that once it passes, it has to keep passing. Never mind, that wouldn't work.

Oh! Instead, we could have a "temp extension start" and "temp extension end", and if there were any passing runs between those two times, then the temp extension is void unless it gets renewed with a new start date.

[KyleFromNVIDIA]

Temporary extension in action: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/39962717089/job/120445673667?pr=24804#step:3:174
Temporary extension expired: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/39963703783/job/120448482637?pr=24804#step:3:174
Temporary extension expired but still passing: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/39963989020/job/120449292469?pr=24804#step:3:174
No extension: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/39964242384/job/120450138268?pr=24804#step:3:174

[jameslamb]

I like the concept, implementation looks good, and I appreciate the testing!

I left one comment... I think the naming would be confusing to anyone who doesn't already have context about the use of this action and the history that led to this PR. Started a thread about that.

Marking this "approve" so you can move forward with it with whatever you decide, I don't want to hold it up for bikeshedding on the name.

[KyleFromNVIDIA]

With new naming convention...

No until-date: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/41486388951/job/125417743633#step:3:172
Until-date that has not yet passed: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/41486551312/job/125418709495#step:3:174
Until-date that has passed: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/41487002168/job/125420109436?pr=24804#step:3:174

[KyleFromNVIDIA]

/merge