fix: stop required checks staying pending for dependabot PRs - #60
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Skipping the pr-content.yml caller job with an if condition prevented the reusable workflow from ever starting, so its required child checks (Validate PR title, Validate PR description, Validate commit messages) never reported a status and stayed pending indefinitely on Dependabot PRs. The dependabot skip is now applied inside each job of pr-content.yml instead, so the jobs still run and report a completed (skipped) status, and the caller workflows no longer skip the content job itself.
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👍🏼 It is good for geoadmin, but I think we should keep it as is for swissgeo as we don't use github dependabot in swissgeo and we will probably use renovate only in future.
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@ltshb Sorry for the back-and-forth! This solution seems to work now. I manually updated this PR to use the GitHub Action branch, and all tests are passing: https://github.com/geoadmin/bgdi-scripts/pull/2533
Skipping the pr-content.yml caller job with an if condition prevented the reusable workflow from ever starting, so its required child checks (Validate PR title, Validate PR description, Validate commit messages) never reported a status and stayed pending indefinitely on Dependabot PRs.
The dependabot skip is now applied inside each job of pr-content.yml instead, so the jobs still run and report a completed (skipped) status, and the caller workflows no longer skip the content job itself.