Only pull license for selected tests and publishing container

[Abacn]

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Apparently GitHub might have throttled / denylisted self-hosted GitHub Action runner

This should bring most PreCommit/PostCommit that building container back to green

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This pull request optimizes the process of pulling licenses within the CI/CD pipeline by making license fetching more targeted and efficient. It adjusts a GitHub Action to only trigger license pulling for specific scenarios, such as selected tests and publishing containers, rather than as a default for all Gradle commands. Additionally, it reduces the number of retry attempts for network-dependent license fetching, aiming to improve build times and potentially mitigate issues related to network throttling or temporary service unavailability.

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• Gradle Action Configuration: The gradle-command-self-hosted-action has been updated to remove the -Pdocker-pull-licenses property from its default gradlew command execution. This change ensures that license pulling is no longer universally applied to all Gradle commands run by this action, making it conditional for specific contexts.
• License Pulling Retry Logic: The Python script pull_licenses_py.py has been modified to reduce the number of retry attempts for pulling licenses from URLs. The stop_after_attempt parameter in the @retry decorator was changed from 10 to 8.

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• .github/actions/gradle-command-self-hosted-action/action.yml
  • Removed the -Pdocker-pull-licenses property from the gradlew command.
• sdks/python/container/license_scripts/pull_licenses_py.py
  • Reduced the stop_after_attempt value in the @retry decorator from 10 to 8.

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[Abacn]

Release candidates explicitly set the flag:

beam/.github/workflows/build_release_candidate.yml

Line 300 in 9829d6d

run: ./gradlew ${{ matrix.images_to_publish.gradle_task }} -PisRelease -Pdocker-pull-licenses -Pprune-images ${{ matrix.images_to_publish.include_skip_flags }} -Pdocker-tag=${{ github.event.inputs.RELEASE }}rc${{ github.event.inputs.RC }} --no-daemon --no-parallel

and it's also enabled when -PisRelease set:

beam/sdks/java/container/common.gradle

Line 111 in 9829d6d

'pull_licenses': project.rootProject.hasProperty("docker-pull-licenses") ||

beam/sdks/python/container/common.gradle

Line 124 in 9829d6d

project.rootProject.hasProperty(["isRelease"])])

beam/sdks/go/container/build.gradle

Line 42 in 9829d6d

project.rootProject.hasProperty(["isRelease"])])

etc

[Abacn]

2^(10-1)=8.5 minutes wait, effectively causing workflow timeout. Not quite useful at this point.

[Abacn]

R: @tvalentyn @claudevdm

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[Abacn]

Merging to mitigate traffic of license pull, as https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/22961218532/job/66652090517?pr=37827 is green.

The change isn't effective on PR run.

[Abacn]

Merged and monitoring test status