job level continue-on-error

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ jobs:
           CONCURRENT: 1 # run all the start_test.sh tests concurrently
         run: |
           cd dockerfiles/testsuite && ./start_test.sh
-
       - name: Store code coverage artifact (integration)
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
@@ -155,6 +154,7 @@ jobs:
 
   job_gocoverage_textfmt:
     name: Convert coverage (bin->txt)
+    continue-on-error: true # never mark the whole CI as failed because of this job
     needs: [job_go_test, job_compose_test]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -166,15 +166,16 @@ jobs:
           go-version: '1.20'
           cache: false
       - name: Convert gocoverage format
-        continue-on-error: true # the merge might fail if unit ran with a different covermode than integration
         run: |
           go tool covdata textfmt -i=gocoverage-unit@${{ env.SHA }}/ \
                                   -o gocoverage-unit@${{ env.SHA }}.txt
           go tool covdata textfmt -i=gocoverage-integration@${{ env.SHA }}/ \
                                   -o gocoverage-integration@${{ env.SHA }}.txt
           go tool covdata textfmt -i=gocoverage-unit@${{ env.SHA }}/,gocoverage-integration@${{ env.SHA }}/ \
                                   -o gocoverage-merged@${{ env.SHA }}.txt
+          # the merge might fail if unit ran with a different covermode than integration (set vs count vs atomic)
       - name: Store code coverage artifact (all, textfmt)
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: gocoverage-all-textfmt@${{ env.SHA }}
@@ -184,19 +185,22 @@ jobs:
     name: Publish coverage (Coveralls)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [job_gocoverage_textfmt]
+    continue-on-error: true # never mark the whole CI as failed because of this job
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: benjlevesque/[email protected] # sets env.SHA to the first 7 chars of github.sha
       - uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: gocoverage-all-textfmt@${{ env.SHA }}
       - name: Send coverage to coveralls.io (unit)
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         uses: shogo82148/actions-goveralls@v1
         with:
           path-to-profile: gocoverage-unit@${{ env.SHA }}.txt
           flag-name: unit
           parallel: true
       - name: Send coverage to coveralls.io (integration)
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         uses: shogo82148/actions-goveralls@v1
         with:
           path-to-profile: gocoverage-integration@${{ env.SHA }}.txt
@@ -212,6 +216,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Publish coverage (DeepSource)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [job_gocoverage_textfmt]
+    continue-on-error: true # never mark the whole CI as failed because of this job
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: benjlevesque/[email protected] # sets env.SHA to the first 7 chars of github.sha