[ARROW-16317] [Archery][CI] Fix possible race condition when submitting crossbow builds

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: Archery, Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31703
• Assignee: Raúl Cumplido
• Reporter: Raúl Cumplido
• Created: 25/Apr/22 12:51
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:43
• Resolved: 19/May/22 14:37

Description

Sometimes when trying to use github-actions to submit crossbow jobs an error is raised like:

Failed to push updated references, potentially because of credential issues: ['refs/heads/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp310-amd64', 'refs/tags/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp310-amd64', 'refs/heads/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp39-amd64', 'refs/tags/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp39-amd64', 'refs/heads/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp37-amd64', 'refs/tags/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp37-amd64', 'refs/heads/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp38-amd64', 'refs/tags/actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp38-amd64', 'refs/heads/actions-1883']
The Archery job run can be found at: https://github.com/apache/arrow/actions/runs/2195038965

As discussed on this github comment (https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12930#issuecomment-1103772507)

We should remove the auto incremented IDs entirely and use unique hashes instead, e.g.: actions-<short-hash>-github-wheel-windows-cp310-amd64 instead of actions-1883-github-wheel-windows-cp310-amd64. Then we wouldn't need to fetch the new references either, making remote crossbow builds and local submission much quicker.

The error can also be seen here: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12987#issuecomment-1108516668

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13188