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Yes. An acknowledgement of the issue should be fine, even if they don’t know why it happened. If a random dev with one PR can see that no jobs are picked up, GitHub should see it as well and add an entry to their status “hey, actions aren’t getting picked up, we are looking into it”. I wasted 20 minutes looking into out actions config looking got an issue, thought maybe we messed something up, but in turned out it was GitHub.

Yes then you know the problem is not in your set up and so do not have to waste time looking into that possibility.

The status page should detect the thing they are looking into. Kinda like a Check Engine light or gauge reading notifies you to investigate a problem with your engine.