feat(actions): implement jobs.<job_id>.continue-on-error (#38100)

Support `continue-on-error` for workflow jobs when aggregating an
Actions workflow run status.

Previously, `continue-on-error` was parsed from workflow YAML but was
not persisted or used when calculating the overall run result. As a
result, a failed job could incorrectly fail the entire workflow even
when the workflow explicitly allowed that job to fail.

This PR stores the parsed `continue-on-error` value on each action run
job and treats failed jobs with `continue-on-error: true` as successful
when computing the workflow run status, matching GitHub Actions
behavior.

## Changes

- Add `ContinueOnError` to `jobparser.Job`.
- Add `continue_on_error` to `ActionRunJob` with a `NOT NULL DEFAULT
FALSE` migration.
- Populate `ActionRunJob.ContinueOnError` when creating workflow run
jobs.
- Update workflow status aggregation so failed `continue-on-error` jobs
do not fail the overall run.
- Leave `resolveCheckNeeds` unchanged so dependent jobs still see the
job result as `failure` and are skipped by default.

## Compatibility

This is backward compatible.

If only the runner or only the server is updated, `continue-on-error`
continues to degrade to the previous behavior and is effectively ignored
until both sides support it.

Related runner PR: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1032

---------

Signed-off-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>

models/actions/run_job.go

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ type ActionRunJob struct {
 	// ParentJobID scopes `Needs` resolution: name lookups happen only among rows sharing the same ParentJobID. 0 for top-level rows.
 	ParentJobID int64 `xorm:"index NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"`
 
+	// ContinueOnError mirrors the job-level continue-on-error field from the workflow YAML.
+	// When true, a failure of this job does not fail the overall workflow run.
+	ContinueOnError bool `xorm:"NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE"`
+
 	Started timeutil.TimeStamp
 	Stopped timeutil.TimeStamp
 	Created timeutil.TimeStamp `xorm:"created"`
@@ -500,9 +504,12 @@ func AggregateJobStatus(jobs []*ActionRunJob) Status {
 	allSkipped := len(jobs) != 0
 	var hasFailure, hasCancelled, hasCancelling, hasWaiting, hasRunning, hasBlocked bool
 	for _, job := range jobs {
-		allSuccessOrSkipped = allSuccessOrSkipped && (job.Status == StatusSuccess || job.Status == StatusSkipped)
+		// A failed job with continue-on-error:true does not fail the workflow run.
+		// It counts as a "continued failure" and is treated like success for aggregation.
+		isContinuedFailure := job.ContinueOnError && job.Status == StatusFailure
+		allSuccessOrSkipped = allSuccessOrSkipped && (job.Status == StatusSuccess || job.Status == StatusSkipped || isContinuedFailure)
 		allSkipped = allSkipped && job.Status == StatusSkipped
-		hasFailure = hasFailure || job.Status == StatusFailure
+		hasFailure = hasFailure || (job.Status == StatusFailure && !job.ContinueOnError)
 		hasCancelled = hasCancelled || job.Status == StatusCancelled
 		hasCancelling = hasCancelling || job.Status == StatusCancelling
 		hasWaiting = hasWaiting || job.Status == StatusWaiting

models/actions/status_test.go

@@ -48,3 +48,57 @@ func TestStatusFromResult(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Equal(t, tt.want, StatusFromResult(tt.result), "result=%s", tt.result)
 	}
 }
+
+func newJob(status Status, continueOnError bool) *ActionRunJob {
+	return &ActionRunJob{Status: status, ContinueOnError: continueOnError}
+}
+
+func TestAggregateJobStatusContinueOnError(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		jobs []*ActionRunJob
+		want Status
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "all success",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusSuccess, false)},
+			want: StatusSuccess,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "one failure without continue-on-error",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusFailure, false)},
+			want: StatusFailure,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "one failure with continue-on-error",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusFailure, true)},
+			want: StatusSuccess,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "only continued-failure",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true)},
+			want: StatusSuccess,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "continued-failure plus real failure",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true), newJob(StatusFailure, false)},
+			want: StatusFailure,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "all skipped",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSkipped, false), newJob(StatusSkipped, false)},
+			want: StatusSkipped,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "continued-failure plus skipped counts as success",
+			jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true), newJob(StatusSkipped, false)},
+			want: StatusSuccess,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range cases {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.want, AggregateJobStatus(tt.jobs))
+		})
+	}
+}

models/migrations/migrations.go

@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ func prepareMigrationTasks() []*migration {
 		newMigration(337, "Add visibility to team", v1_27.AddVisibilityToTeam),
 		newMigration(338, "Expand legacy MSSQL issue/comment long-text columns", v1_27.ExpandIssueAndCommentLongTextFieldsForMSSQL),
 		newMigration(339, "Extend action c_u index to include created_unix for faster dashboard feed queries", v1_27.AddCreatedUnixToActionUserIsDeletedIndex),
+		newMigration(340, "Add ContinueOnError column to ActionRunJob", v1_27.AddContinueOnErrorToActionRunJob),
 	}
 	return preparedMigrations
 }

models/migrations/v1_27/v340.go

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// Copyright 2026 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package v1_27
+
+import (
+	"gitea.dev/models/db"
+
+	"xorm.io/xorm"
+)
+
+// AddContinueOnErrorToActionRunJob adds the ContinueOnError column to ActionRunJob,
+// storing the job-level continue-on-error value from the workflow YAML.
+func AddContinueOnErrorToActionRunJob(x db.EngineMigration) error {
+	type ActionRunJob struct {
+		ContinueOnError bool `xorm:"NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE"`
+	}
+
+	_, err := x.SyncWithOptions(xorm.SyncOptions{
+		IgnoreDropIndices: true,
+		IgnoreConstrains:  true,
+	}, new(ActionRunJob))
+	return err
+}