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When we submit a PR for a CI update or docs, we do not want to start CI checking
for ansible-lint, qemu, etc. When we are doing CI updates to 30 or more
roles, this fires off a lot of unnecessary tests, which sometimes causes the
linux-system-roles org in github to be throttled.

When submitting a PR that can skip ci, use "[citest_skip]" in the PR title.

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Adds a conditional guard to most GitHub Actions CI jobs so they are skipped when the pull request title contains the marker "[citest_skip]" to avoid unnecessary CI runs for certain PRs.

Sequence diagram for GitHub Actions job evaluation with citest_skip

sequenceDiagram
  actor Developer
  participant GitHub
  participant Workflow_ansible_lint

  Developer->>GitHub: Open_or_update_PR_with_title
  GitHub->>Workflow_ansible_lint: Evaluate_job_trigger

  alt Title_does_not_contain_citest_skip
    Workflow_ansible_lint-->>GitHub: Condition_true_run_job
    GitHub->>Workflow_ansible_lint: Start_ansible_lint_job
  else Title_contains_citest_skip
    Workflow_ansible_lint-->>GitHub: Condition_false_skip_job
    GitHub--xWorkflow_ansible_lint: Do_not_start_job
  end
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Add a PR-title based conditional to skip most CI workflows when the title includes "[citest_skip]".
  • Introduce an if condition on each affected job using GitHub Actions' contains() function against github.event.pull_request.title.
  • Apply the same conditional string "!contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[citest_skip]')" across linting, testing, analysis, and documentation-related workflows to standardize skipping behavior.
  • Ensure that scheduled or other non-pull_request triggers in workflows like CodeQL are also subject to the same conditional, effectively disabling those jobs when associated with a PR carrying the skip marker.
.github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
.github/workflows/ansible-managed-var-comment.yml
.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
.github/workflows/codeql.yml
.github/workflows/codespell.yml
.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
.github/workflows/python-unit-test.yml
.github/workflows/qemu-kvm-integration-tests.yml
.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
.github/workflows/test_converting_readme.yml
.github/workflows/woke.yml

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Hey - I've left some high level feedback:

  • For workflows that are triggered by events other than pull_request (e.g., the scheduled CodeQL run), github.event.pull_request may be undefined, so the if: "!contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[citest_skip]')" check can fail; consider guarding with the event type or using a default string, e.g. if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || !contains(github.event.pull_request.title || '', '[citest_skip]').
  • If the intent is to skip CI only for PR-triggered runs while keeping scheduled or push-based checks always on, you may want to restrict the skip logic to pull_request workflows (or add github.event_name == 'pull_request' to the condition) so that non-PR workflows remain unaffected.
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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Overall Comments
- For workflows that are triggered by events other than `pull_request` (e.g., the scheduled CodeQL run), `github.event.pull_request` may be undefined, so the `if: "!contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[citest_skip]')"` check can fail; consider guarding with the event type or using a default string, e.g. `if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || !contains(github.event.pull_request.title || '', '[citest_skip]')`.
- If the intent is to skip CI only for PR-triggered runs while keeping scheduled or push-based checks always on, you may want to restrict the skip logic to `pull_request` workflows (or add `github.event_name == 'pull_request'` to the condition) so that non-PR workflows remain unaffected.

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When we submit a PR for a CI update or docs, we do not want to start CI checking
for ansible-lint, qemu, etc.  When we are doing CI updates to 30 or more
roles, this fires off a lot of unnecessary tests, which sometimes causes the
linux-system-roles org in github to be throttled.

When submitting a PR that can skip ci, use "[citest_skip]" in the PR title.

Signed-off-by: Rich Megginson <[email protected]>
When we submit a PR for a CI update or docs, we do not want to start CI checking
for ansible-lint, qemu, etc.  When we are doing CI updates to 30 or more
roles, this fires off a lot of unnecessary tests, which sometimes causes the
linux-system-roles org in github to be throttled.

When submitting a PR that can skip ci, use "[citest_skip]" in the PR title.

Signed-off-by: Rich Megginson <[email protected]>
@richm richm merged commit 097cc76 into main Feb 4, 2026
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@richm richm deleted the citest_skip branch February 4, 2026 14:02
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