From 654a3799068de355e220e9721e08bb668d04f271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Mumford <stuart@cadair.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:13:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add a step which opens an issue when the update workflow
 fails

fixes #231
---
 .../.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml  | 73 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml b/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml
index 60649ec..78c5827 100644
--- a/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml	
+++ b/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml	
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # This template is taken from the cruft example code, for further information please see:
 # https://cruft.github.io/cruft/#automating-updates-with-github-actions
 name: Automatic Update from package template
-permissions:
-    contents: write
-    pull-requests: write
 
 on:
   # Allow manual runs through the web UI
@@ -19,6 +16,9 @@ on:
 jobs:
   update:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
     strategy:
       fail-fast: true
     steps:
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.14"
 
       - name: Install Cruft
         run: python -m pip install git+https://github.com/Cadair/cruft@patch-p1
@@ -93,3 +93,68 @@ jobs:
             If this pull request has been opened as a draft there are conflicts which need fixing.
 
             **To run the CI on this pull request you will need to close it and reopen it.**
+
+  report-fail:
+    if: failure()
+    needs: [update]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Open an issue if workflow fails
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ github.token }}
+          script: |
+            const fs = require('fs');
+
+            // Edit these if needed for your repo
+            const variables = {
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              name: context.repo.repo,
+              label: "Infrastructure",
+              creator: "app/github-actions",
+              title: "SunPy Package Template auto-update failed."
+            };
+
+            const logs = 'The package update workflow failed.'
+            const workflow_url = `https://github.com/${process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs/${process.env.GITHUB_RUN_ID}`;
+            const issue_body = `[Workflow Run URL](${workflow_url})\n${logs}`;
+
+            const query_string = `repo:${variables.owner}/${variables.name} author:${variables.creator} label:${variables.label} is:open in:title ${variables.title}`;
+
+            // Run GraphQL query against GitHub API to find the most recent open issue used for reporting failures
+            const query = `query {
+              search(query: "${query_string}", type:ISSUE, first: 1) {
+                edges {
+                  node {
+                    ... on Issue {
+                      body
+                      id
+                      number
+                    }
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            }`;
+
+            const result = await github.graphql(query);
+
+            // If no issue is open, create a new issue,
+            // else update the body of the existing issue.
+            if (result.search.edges.length === 0) {
+              github.rest.issues.create({
+                owner: variables.owner,
+                repo: variables.n   ame,
+                body: issue_body,
+                title: variables.title,
+                labels: [variables.label],
+              });
+            } else {
+              github.rest.issues.update({
+                owner: variables.owner,
+                repo: variables.name,
+                issue_number: result.search.edges[0].node.number,
+                body: issue_body
+              });
+            }

From 9f3d189bd0421485408c6583bd24ead511d0d190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Mumford <stuart@cadair.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:17:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] attribution

---
 .../.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml                    | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml b/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml
index 78c5827..171ce90 100644
--- a/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml	
+++ b/{{ cookiecutter.package_name }}/.github/workflows/sub_package_update.yml	
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/github-script@v7
         with:
           github-token: ${{ github.token }}
+          # This script is adapted from https://github.com/scientific-python/issue-from-pytest-log-action
+          # Under MIT license (c) Scientific Python Developers
           script: |
             const fs = require('fs');