GithubWebhooksController.handle always returns 202 even when handleEvent marks the event FAILED, and no job ever reprocesses FAILED WebhookEvent rows

GithubWebhooksController.handle (src/github/github-webhooks.controller.ts) is decorated @HttpCode(202) unconditionally, and always responds { received: true, eventId: event.id, status: event.status } — including when event.status is WebhookEventStatus.FAILED (set on e.g. a transient escrow-release/DB error while processing a merged PR). Because the HTTP response code is a 2xx regardless of the internal status, GitHub's own automatic webhook-redelivery-on-failure mechanism never triggers for a genuinely transient failure — from GitHub's point of view the delivery succeeded.

A repo-wide check for scheduled jobs (grep -rln "@Cron\|@Interval\|ScheduleModule" src) finds only bounty-expiry.scheduler.ts and idempotency-cleanup.service.ts — nothing touches WebhookEvent after it's written. So a FAILED event (e.g. a merged PR whose linked bounty's markMergedAndRelease throws due to a momentary Soroban/network blip) is recorded once, GitHub is told it succeeded, and the payout never gets a second attempt unless an operator manually notices the row in the webhook_events table and re-triggers it by hand — there's no operational tooling to even do that re-trigger.

Fix: either (a) return a 5xx when event.status === FAILED so GitHub's own retry mechanism handles it, or (b) add a scheduled job that requeues WebhookEvent rows with status = FAILED (bounded by retry count / age) through the same handlePullRequest/handleIssueEvent logic.

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I’ll trace GithubWebhooksController.handle through handleEvent, then choose between GitHub redelivery and a bounded retry job, with tests that prevent duplicate bounty releases. I shipped Notify-Chain #889’s delivery receipts and #844’s data-integrity constraints with tests; on vortex-backend I delivered #544’s SSRF allowlist and #552’s fast-check harness. Within 24 hours, I’ll verify the idempotency boundaries and add coverage for transient failure and safe retry. Would you consider assigning #317 to me?

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Submitted PR #476 addressing this issue. It implements HTTP 500 on failed webhook status to trigger redeliveries and allows reprocessing previously failed events.

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