[Bug]: PostRelease Nightly workflow flaky for release candidate validation

[Abacn]

What happened?

Example run: https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/11352551723

Failed with dependency resolution involving maven staging repository

Failed to execute goal on project word-count-beam: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.example:word-count-beam:jar:0.1: Failed to collect dependencies at org.apache.beam:beam-runners-portability-java:jar:2.60.0: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.beam:beam-runners-portability-java:jar:2.60.0: The following artifacts could not be resolved: org.apache.beam:beam-runners-portability-java:pom:2.60.0 (absent): Could not transfer artifact org.apache.beam:beam-runners-portability-java:pom:2.60.0 from/to test.release (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-1387/): Connect to repository.apache.org:443 [repository.apache.org/65.109.119.155] failed: connect timed out -> [Help 1]

the particular test targeted succeeded locally. It is likely due to that maven staging repository has less availability than maven central, and while, while multiple test target running in parallel, maven become flaky.

One possible fix is to force gradle targets run sequentially when the workflow is using maven staging repository

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Priority: 2 (default / most bugs should be filed as P2)

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[chamikaramj]

Did something change recently ? For example, did we start running more tests that use the staging repository ?

[chamikaramj]

Ah, seems like it's just trying to get a non-existent file ?

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples-2.61.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

[chamikaramj]

Seems like file-resolution is somehow incorrect.

Successful run: https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/11307102323/job/31448448902

[INFO] Archetype repository not defined. Using the one from [org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples:2.24.0] found in catalog remote
[INFO] Downloading from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloaded from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (1.7 kB at 3.3 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples-2.61.0-20241012.122627-12.jar
[INFO] Downloaded from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples-2.61.0-20241012.122627-12.jar (340 kB at 435 kB/s)

Failed run: https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/11369820828/job/31628153369

[INFO] Archetype repository not defined. Using the one from [org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples:2.24.0] found in catalog remote
[INFO] Downloading from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Warning:  Could not transfer metadata org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples:2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml from/to test.release (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots): Connect to repository.apache.org:443 [repository.apache.org/65.109.119.155] failed: connect timed out
[INFO] Downloading from test.release: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/beam/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples/2.61.0-SNAPSHOT/beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples-2.61.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[chamikaramj]

Filed #32824 for the HEAD failure.