No option to re-try failed CodeQL jobs

[plz12345]

We're using the native/non-YAML CodeQL implementation. GitHub had an outage earlier today, where git itself was returning HTTP 500's for about an hour. During this time, the CodeQL jobs for our repo failed. Unlike other jobs, we have no option to retry them. It's "view" or "delete". The only workaround I could think of is closing the triggering PR and opening a new one, but I shouldn't have to do that on native GitHub functionality failing.

[mbg]

Hi @plz12345,

Thanks for opening this issue and sorry about the impact of the outage on CodeQL analyses.

I believe that the relevant team at GitHub is already aware of this limitation with managed workflows (it's not specific to CodeQL / Default Setup), but I can't say if and when that will be addressed.

On our end (CodeQL Action) we are investigating whether we can improve when and how often the CodeQL Action retries API requests, but that would be local to steps within a workflow and probably would not have helped with an incident of this duration.

The only workaround I could think of is closing the triggering PR and opening a new one, but I shouldn't have to do that on native GitHub functionality failing.

Pushing e.g. an empty (or no-op) commit (or similar) should also trigger the analysis to run again, but I agree that none of these are ideal workarounds.

[plz12345]

Yeah, I thought it might but this was on a protected branch,