RFR: 8362582: GHA: Increase bundle retention time to deal with infra overload better

[Goetz Lindenmaier]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:03:19 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I have now seen GHA runs where we spend more than 24 hours for a testing workflow. The practical effect of this is that bundles that we current carry with `retention-days: 1` gets purged before jobs can use them. This then fails the test jobs that e.g. unable to pull jtreg.
> 
> This seems to happen in openjdk-bots -driven backports quite a bit (the run a lots of GHA runs, so they are often at capacity) and with Mac jobs (where the compute capacity is not great).
> 
> We can bump the retention time a bit to handle this a bit better. 
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [ ] GHA

Marked as reviewed by goetz (Reviewer).

Hi,
Sometimes I address many simple test fix backports.  This can easily be 20+ in 2-3 hours. This is probably what saturates the infra and my quota.
In general, I don't await all tests to finish.  On a test change, running all the other tests is pointless.  But if there are failed tests, I look at all of these (tedious!).  Usually, it takes me two working days to get through all the process steps and to push such a change.  But I can't make the 24h deadline, nor do I want to to give at least some time for others to eventually have a look at the backport.

So I really appreciate this change.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26383#pullrequestreview-3032863381
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26383#issuecomment-3088798571