Previews for all pull requests

[jonathanhefner]

The standard workflow for open-source contribution on GitHub is to fork a repo, create a branch in the fork, and then make a pull request from the fork's branch to the upstream repository.

Mintlify currently only supports Previews for branches within the upstream repository, meaning Previews do not support the standard workflow for open-source contribution.

Please add support for generating Previews for all pull requests, regardless of where the PR branch lives.

[novusnota]

+1, preview deployments for forks would be greatly appreciated!

[markmandel]

Huge +1 to this. Our docs are open source, and when we get community contributions, there's no way to get a preview for a community contribution (or run CI through the mintlify validation process -- it has to be done manually, which is a slog).

In an ideal world. I could have a list of allowlisted github account (or a team!) that are auto-previewed, and also have the authority to do a slash command in a comment, such as /mintlify-preview (or similar), and that kicks off a preview (and validation, etc) for the pull request.

[markmandel]

As a suggestion for what might be a good first step / low barrier to entry rather than doing the whole thing at once.

Support pull/ID/head for being able to run manual previews (see these GitHub docs if you aren't familiar). I just tried it, and it got through the first validation step, but failed when it actually tried to deploy.