The issue that we are facing right now is that, we have a set of “required checks” to merge PR into master, and one of the “required” checks, will just run if some set of files were changed. Therefore we need as well a conditional way to require a specific check just if a specific workflow runs or not. Otherwise either I have to remove the “required check” or never have a PR with all checks “green” again
currently working on a monorepo with many services and having the exact same problem, since the Github merge protection requires the admin to specify the exact job or workflow name, the path-filtering orb doesn’t work really well with it
If I have parallel workflows A and B and specify both on the Github required status check dashboard, the Github PR merge check will be stuck if I only trigger either workflow A or B (not both) based on path-filtering orb mapping.
I wonder if there’s a way on circleci (or from Github side) to dynamically use all existing workflow as a check rather than specifying it manually from the Github dashboard
but it forces me to specify each case individually (“when (and (test-frontend, not test-backend))” instead of just “when test-frontend”) otherwise I would have the all-ok job run in another workflow and allow merge on github.
Now I’m adding more paths and dependencies (run test-frontend and test-pdf when js-utils/* is modified) and the configuration gets really tedious to write by hand…
I have this same problem and I’m trying to think of a solution to it.
I’ve been thinking about implementing a similar solution that works with workflows.
I don’t want a single workflow for all our code - it would be unmanageable.
I’m surprised that CircleCI hasn’t come up with a good solution here.
Anyone come up with any new / creative solutions to this. I had the same thought (in terms of dummy checks), but doesn’t seem like a good idea for various reasons.
Hola,
Is there any newer alternative?
My main concern is that our conditional jobs are running on a docker machine, and having the condition within the job’s steps require spinning up the environment before we can break from additional steps…