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The weekly Backstage update has not opened a pull request since July #77
Description
Summary
The scheduled job that moves the portal onto each new Backstage release has failed on all ten runs since early July, so it has never opened a pull request for anyone to review.
The portal still builds against the Backstage release from 6 July while upstream has moved two minor versions ahead. No dependency or security update has reached the main branch in those two months.
What runs for users has drifted further still, because the newest release tag predates seven merged changes, including the catalog vocabulary work.
Acceptance criteria
- The weekly job finishes and opens a pull request carrying the new Backstage versions
- That pull request carries a lock file a clean install accepts without modification
- A future run that produces an inconsistent lock file fails the job instead of opening a pull request
Releasing
Merging the update does not put it in front of users, and cutting a tag to do that is a separate decision.
Important
Staging tracks the main branch continuously, but production follows the newest stable tag on an open range with no pin. A tag reaches production within minutes of being cut, and no soak period stands between the two, so the first release after this fix wants deliberate timing rather than a reflex tag.
Activity
ecv commentedon Sep 12, 2026
Reopened, because this closed when #78 merged, before the weekly job has run with the fix. Its last three scheduled runs all failed.
The next scheduled run is Monday 14 September at 06:00Z. This closes once that run finishes and opens a pull request whose lock file installs cleanly, or earlier if someone starts the job by hand.
ecv commentedon Sep 12, 2026
The job ran by hand at 19:56Z today and finished green. It bumped the packages, passed the immutable lock file check it now runs before opening anything, and opened #79.
No checks ran on that pull request, because the job opens it with the default workflow token. That gap is tracked in #80.