[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60370: Test Tools: Clarifying reusable workflows in Github CI

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#60370: Test Tools: Clarifying reusable workflows in Github CI
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 Reporter:  youknowriad       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Build/Test Tools  |     Version:
 Severity:  minor             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close             |     Focuses:
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Comment (by johnbillion):

 It's mainly a balance between maintainability and stability.

 The commit message in [59673] covers the two main somewhat opposing
 scenarios: we want a local reference to avoid the exact problem you
 experienced, but we don't want to endlessly have to maintain and backport
 workflow changes to 23 old branches.

 Using a local reference for trunk and switching it back to a fully
 qualified remote reference in prior branches gives us the best of both. In
 particular, this means we no longer need to backport updates to deprecated
 actions and deprecated runner references, both of which were problematic
 in the past when someone started work on a backport and for example
 `ubuntu-latest` had switched from 22.04 to 24.04 since the previous
 workflow run.

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