Run tooltip validation on every PR so the required check can't get stuck#703
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"Check tooltip imports" is a required status check, but the workflow was path-filtered to .mdx/tooltip files. PRs touching none of those paths (e.g. docs.json-only redirect PRs like #694) never trigger the workflow, so the required check sits in "expected" forever and the merge is blocked. Remove the paths filter so the workflow always runs. The validate script scans all tracked .mdx files in ~0.1s and exits 0 when nothing is broken, so unconditional runs are effectively free. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merging is additionally gated on a successful Mintlify staging deployment, which only runs when docs content changes. A workflow-only PR deploys nothing and cannot merge, so add the missing trailing newline to one .mdx as the content trigger. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@lavanya-gunreddi sorry, one more re-approval needed here too. This repo has a second merge gate beyond the review: a successful Mintlify staging deployment. Workflow-only PRs change no docs content, so Mintlify deploys nothing and the merge is blocked ('Missing successful active staging deployment'). I pushed a trailing-newline touch to serverless/overview.mdx to trigger the deployment, which reset your approval. Nothing else changed. Once re-approved I'll merge immediately. Between this and the paths-filter issue this PR fixes, the pattern is the same: required gates that can never run on certain PRs. If the Mintlify deployment gate causes trouble again we may want to revisit whether it should be required. |
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…main) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@lavanya-gunreddi so close - your approval landed right as the 711 merge deploy raced out this PR's staging deployment (by seven seconds). Just pushed another whitespace trigger; checks go green in about a minute. One more approval click and the auto-merge fires within seconds this time. Main is quiet now so the window will hold. |
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@danstotts-ops approval needed for 703? I see that 711 is merged. |
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mainrequires the status check Check tooltip imports, produced by.github/workflows/validate-tooltips.yml. That workflow was path-filtered to**.mdx,snippets/tooltips.jsx,scripts/validate-tooltips.js, and the workflow file itself.GitHub required checks have no concept of "skipped by paths filter": if the workflow never triggers, the check stays in expected state forever and the PR is unmergeable. Any PR touching none of the filtered paths hits this, most commonly
docs.json-only changes. Concrete example: #694 (redirects-only) is currently blocked by exactly this.Fix
Remove the
paths:filter so the workflow runs on every PR tomain, per GitHub's recommended handling for required checks (always run the workflow; let it no-op fast when there's nothing to check). A comment in the workflow now warns against re-adding a filter.Why this is safe and cheap
scripts/validate-tooltips.jsscans all tracked.mdxfiles on every run regardless of the diff. Verified locally on a clean checkout:0in ~0.13s (295 MDX files, 49 tooltip definitions)So on an unrelated PR (e.g.
docs.json-only), the job checks out, runs in well under a minute, and reports success, unblocking JSON-only PRs while keeping identical validation for MDX changes.🤖 Generated with Claude Code