scala3-upickle CI flake: Bloop compiler-server startup timeout + maven-nightlies download failures

[schani]

What happens

The scala3-upickle / schema-scala3-upickle fixture jobs intermittently fail because the Bloop compiler server times out during startup. The Scala fixtures spin up Bloop, and its 30-second startup budget is regularly exceeded, often after failed downloads from the maven-nightlies repository.

Evidence

• Signature: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Future timed out after [30 seconds] raised inside bloop.rifle during compiler-server startup, frequently preceded by Failed to download ... maven-nightlies.
• Affected PRs (6): fix(core): honor --no-combine-classes for structurally identical classes #3039, fix(cli): honor --src-lang for directory JSON/URL inputs #3034, fix(schema): honor single-entry patternProperties as additionalProperties #3008, fix(schema): honor patternProperties value schema for object maps #2996, fix(typescript): emit top-level aliases for bare map schemas #2991, fix(core): preserve outer oneOf title when flattened with null #2980. In each, the job fails on inputs the PR does not touch (mostly coin-pairs.json, a plain priority JSON fixture), and the PRs' own new fixtures passed under Scala before the crash (e.g. fix(schema): honor single-entry patternProperties as additionalProperties #3008, fix(typescript): emit top-level aliases for bare map schemas #2991).
• Also on master: the same check fails on master run 29782611112 (merge of fix(csharp): throw JsonException/NotSupportedException in SystemTextJson converters #2976), confirming this is environmental rather than a PR diff.

This is the single biggest flake source in the fixture matrix.

Impact

Because the fixture matrix runs with fail-fast: true, a single Scala timeout cancels every sibling language job in the same matrix and trips the test-complete gate, so one flake looks like a broad multi-language failure. See #3066 for details.

Suggested solutions

• Cache/warm the Bloop server or pin its version so startup does not pay a cold-start cost each run.
• Raise the Bloop startup timeout above 30 seconds.
• Cache the maven artifacts with actions/cache so downloads do not hit the network every run.
• Avoid nightly repositories (maven-nightlies) in CI; pin to stable artifact versions.

Interim policy

Per CLAUDE.md ("Known CI flakiness"), we accept this flake for now. When it happens we retry the failed jobs (gh run rerun <run-id> --failed); a failure here only counts as real if it reproduces across retries or the PR actually touches Scala.