Notify everyone when daily main tests fail

[eriktamsen]

As mentioned the email notification for a failed workflow only reach the person who last changed the job, see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/monitoring-and-troubleshooting-workflows/notifications-for-workflow-runs

It should be possible to build a feature to send specific email to a list of people.
Maybe this can be adapted? https://www.ravsam.in/blog/send-email-notification-when-github-action-fails/

Here another similar example with code to only trigger on failure:
Other ideas: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62304258/github-actions-notifications-on-workflow-failure

Or maybe do a separate workflow that is triggered on failure of the test workflow?

[joergfunger]

That looks good, the only thing we would have to do is to create an email account with app-specific passwords that we could send the emails from - or is there an option to send notifications to github users (such that github is taking over the responsibility to send a message)?

[joergfunger]

alternatively, we could send it to teams, e.g. using this