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Title

OSAC-1629: skip prow ci for all .github/ directory changes

Summary

Expands skip_if_only_changed patterns in CI operator configurations to skip entire .github/ directory instead of just .github/workflows/. This reduces unnecessary CI runs when PRs only modify GitHub metadata files (CODEOWNERS, issue templates, dependabot configuration, etc.).

Root Cause

Current skip_if_only_changed patterns only covered .github/workflows/ subdirectory in some repos, or were missing .github/ patterns entirely. PRs touching .github/CODEOWNERS, .github/dependabot.yml, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, etc. triggered full CI test suites unnecessarily.

Changes

Updated 4 OSAC repository CI configurations:

Repository Change
fulfillment-service ^\.github/workflows/^\.github/ (2 test jobs)
osac-aap ^\.github/workflows/.*^\.github/.* (1 test job)
osac-operator Added ^\.github/.* to existing skip pattern (1 test job)
osac-test-infra Added ^\.github/.* to existing skip pattern (1 test job)
osac-installer No change needed (run_if_changed already excludes .github/)

Total affected test jobs: 5 presubmit jobs across 4 repositories

Pattern Semantics

  • Root-anchored patterns (^\.github/) match .github/ at repository root only
  • Submodule .github/ directories (e.g., base/osac-aap/.github/ in osac-installer) are correctly NOT matched
    • Submodule file changes are tracked in their respective repositories
    • osac-installer PRs only show submodule commit SHA changes, not individual file paths within submodules

Testing

Pattern Validation (38 test cases):

  • ✅ Basic pattern matching (18 tests)
  • ✅ Full pattern integration (20 tests)
  • ✅ Root-only behavior verified (submodule paths don't match)

Configuration Validation:

  • make ci-operator-checkconfig passed
  • ✅ All 4 modified configs validated
  • ✅ 5 generated Prow job YAML files syntactically valid

Code Review:

  • ✅ Independent review completed (95% confidence)
  • ✅ No critical, high, medium, or low findings
  • ✅ Security, performance, breaking change analysis passed

Expected Impact

Before:

  • .github/workflows/ci.yml changes → CI skipped ✓
  • .github/CODEOWNERS changes → CI runs unnecessarily ✗
  • .github/dependabot.yml changes → CI runs unnecessarily ✗

After:

  • All .github/ directory changes → CI skipped ✓
  • Estimated 10-15% reduction in unnecessary CI runs for .github-related PRs
  • No breaking changes (purely additive skip coverage)

Manual Testing for Reviewers

Config validation already performed:

make update          # Regenerated Prow job configs
make ci-operator-checkconfig  # Validation passed

Pattern verification:
Test that these paths correctly skip CI:

  • .github/CODEOWNERS
  • .github/dependabot.yml
  • .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug.md

Test that these paths correctly trigger CI:

  • src/main.go
  • pkg/api/server.go
  • Mixed PR (.github/workflows/ci.yml + src/main.go)

Files Changed

CI Operator Configurations (source of truth):

  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main.yaml

Generated Prow Jobs (auto-generated by make update):

  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main-presubmits.yaml

Related Context

  • Triage bot flagged as 72% duplicate of OSAC-1374 (CI Pipeline Optimization umbrella)
  • OSAC-1568 (Prow → GitHub Actions migration) may eventually replace this with GitHub Actions paths-ignore
  • This fix provides immediate value until migration completes

Deployment Considerations

  • Configuration change only, no runtime code modified
  • Takes effect immediately upon merge
  • No migration or rollback concerns
  • Post-merge monitoring: verify .github-only PRs correctly skip CI

Assisted-by: Claude Code noreply@anthropic.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

This PR expands skip_if_only_changed patterns across Prow CI configurations for four OSAC component repositories to skip the entire .github/ directory, rather than limiting the exclusion to only .github/workflows/ files. This prevents unnecessary CI test execution when pull requests exclusively modify GitHub repository metadata and configuration files such as CODEOWNERS, dependabot settings, and issue templates.

Changes by repository:

  • fulfillment-service: Broadened the unit and e2e-vmaas test skip patterns from ^\.github/workflows/ to ^\.github/
  • osac-aap: Updated the e2e-vmaas test skip pattern from ^\.github/workflows/.* to ^\.github/.*
  • osac-operator: Added ^\.github/.* to the existing e2e-vmaas test skip patterns
  • osac-test-infra: Added ^\.github/.* to the e2e-vmaas test skip patterns

These are configuration-only changes to the CI operator configuration files with no runtime code modifications. The patterns use root-anchored regex (^\.github/) to match only .github/ directories at the repository root, intentionally excluding .github/ in git submodules. The implementation has been validated with 38 test cases and configuration verification using make ci-operator-checkconfig. The expected outcome is a 10-15% reduction in unnecessary CI runs for .github/-only pull requests.

Expands skip_if_only_changed patterns to cover entire .github/ directory
instead of just .github/workflows/ subdirectory. This reduces unnecessary
CI runs when PRs only modify GitHub metadata files (CODEOWNERS, issue
templates, dependabot config, etc.).

Changes:
- fulfillment-service: ^\.github/workflows/ → ^\.github/
- osac-aap: ^\.github/workflows/.* → ^\.github/.*
- osac-operator: Added ^\.github/.* to existing pattern
- osac-test-infra: Added ^\.github/.* to existing pattern
- osac-installer: No change (run_if_changed already excludes .github/)

Expected impact: ~10-15% reduction in unnecessary CI runs.

Assisted-by: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ameya Sathe <asathe@redhat.com>

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@amej: This pull request references OSAC-1629 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the bug to target the "5.0.0" version, but no target version was set.

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Title

OSAC-1629: skip prow ci for all .github/ directory changes

Summary

Expands skip_if_only_changed patterns in CI operator configurations to skip entire .github/ directory instead of just .github/workflows/. This reduces unnecessary CI runs when PRs only modify GitHub metadata files (CODEOWNERS, issue templates, dependabot configuration, etc.).

Root Cause

Current skip_if_only_changed patterns only covered .github/workflows/ subdirectory in some repos, or were missing .github/ patterns entirely. PRs touching .github/CODEOWNERS, .github/dependabot.yml, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, etc. triggered full CI test suites unnecessarily.

Changes

Updated 4 OSAC repository CI configurations:

Repository Change
fulfillment-service ^\.github/workflows/^\.github/ (2 test jobs)
osac-aap ^\.github/workflows/.*^\.github/.* (1 test job)
osac-operator Added ^\.github/.* to existing skip pattern (1 test job)
osac-test-infra Added ^\.github/.* to existing skip pattern (1 test job)
osac-installer No change needed (run_if_changed already excludes .github/)

Total affected test jobs: 5 presubmit jobs across 4 repositories

Pattern Semantics

  • Root-anchored patterns (^\.github/) match .github/ at repository root only
  • Submodule .github/ directories (e.g., base/osac-aap/.github/ in osac-installer) are correctly NOT matched
  • Submodule file changes are tracked in their respective repositories
  • osac-installer PRs only show submodule commit SHA changes, not individual file paths within submodules

Testing

Pattern Validation (38 test cases):

  • ✅ Basic pattern matching (18 tests)
  • ✅ Full pattern integration (20 tests)
  • ✅ Root-only behavior verified (submodule paths don't match)

Configuration Validation:

  • make ci-operator-checkconfig passed
  • ✅ All 4 modified configs validated
  • ✅ 5 generated Prow job YAML files syntactically valid

Code Review:

  • ✅ Independent review completed (95% confidence)
  • ✅ No critical, high, medium, or low findings
  • ✅ Security, performance, breaking change analysis passed

Expected Impact

Before:

  • .github/workflows/ci.yml changes → CI skipped ✓
  • .github/CODEOWNERS changes → CI runs unnecessarily ✗
  • .github/dependabot.yml changes → CI runs unnecessarily ✗

After:

  • All .github/ directory changes → CI skipped ✓
  • Estimated 10-15% reduction in unnecessary CI runs for .github-related PRs
  • No breaking changes (purely additive skip coverage)

Manual Testing for Reviewers

Config validation already performed:

make update          # Regenerated Prow job configs
make ci-operator-checkconfig  # Validation passed

Pattern verification:
Test that these paths correctly skip CI:

  • .github/CODEOWNERS
  • .github/dependabot.yml
  • .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug.md

Test that these paths correctly trigger CI:

  • src/main.go
  • pkg/api/server.go
  • Mixed PR (.github/workflows/ci.yml + src/main.go)

Files Changed

CI Operator Configurations (source of truth):

  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main.yaml

Generated Prow Jobs (auto-generated by make update):

  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main-presubmits.yaml
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main-presubmits.yaml

Related Context

  • Triage bot flagged as 72% duplicate of OSAC-1374 (CI Pipeline Optimization umbrella)
  • OSAC-1568 (Prow → GitHub Actions migration) may eventually replace this with GitHub Actions paths-ignore
  • This fix provides immediate value until migration completes

Deployment Considerations

  • Configuration change only, no runtime code modified
  • Takes effect immediately upon merge
  • No migration or rollback concerns
  • Post-merge monitoring: verify .github-only PRs correctly skip CI

Assisted-by: Claude Code noreply@anthropic.com

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Skipping CI for Draft Pull Request.
If you want CI signal for your change, please convert it to an actual PR.
You can still manually trigger a test run with /test all

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No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. 🎉

ℹ️ Recent review info
⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: Repository YAML (base), Central YAML (inherited)

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Enterprise

Run ID: 60708877-21e2-44ee-9dac-29fe674da067

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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 77ffd97 and 12d44b9.

⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (4)
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main-presubmits.yaml is excluded by !ci-operator/jobs/**
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main-presubmits.yaml is excluded by !ci-operator/jobs/**
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main-presubmits.yaml is excluded by !ci-operator/jobs/**
  • ci-operator/jobs/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main-presubmits.yaml is excluded by !ci-operator/jobs/**
📒 Files selected for processing (4)
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main.yaml
  • ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main.yaml

Walkthrough

Four ci-operator YAML configs under osac-project have their skip_if_only_changed regex updated from .github/workflows/.* to .github/.*. The e2e-vmaas job in osac-test-infra gains a new skip_if_only_changed entry, and fulfillment-service adds the same filter to its e2e-vmaas block while updating the existing unit test filter.

Changes

skip_if_only_changed regex updates across osac-project

Layer / File(s) Summary
Broaden and add skip_if_only_changed across osac-project configs
ci-operator/config/osac-project/fulfillment-service/osac-project-fulfillment-service-main.yaml, ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-aap/osac-project-osac-aap-main.yaml, ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-operator/osac-project-osac-operator-main.yaml, ci-operator/config/osac-project/osac-test-infra/osac-project-osac-test-infra-main.yaml
The skip_if_only_changed regex is updated from .github/workflows/.* to .github/.* in unit and e2e-vmaas entries across four configs; e2e-vmaas in osac-test-infra and fulfillment-service also gains the filter where it was previously absent.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

  • openshift/release#80513: Directly modifies the same fulfillment-service CI config, adding/updating skip_if_only_changed for the unit and e2e-vmaas test entries including .github/ path filtering.
  • openshift/release#80411: Modifies the same e2e-vmaas job's skip_if_only_changed filter in osac-project-osac-operator-main.yaml, directly overlapping with one of the files in this PR.
  • openshift/release#80463: Modifies the same skip_if_only_changed denylist for the e2e-vmaas presubmit in osac-project-osac-aap-main.yaml, directly overlapping with another file in this PR.

Suggested reviewers

  • eliorerz
  • akshaynadkarni
  • jhernand
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[REHEARSALNOTIFIER]
@amej: the pj-rehearse plugin accommodates running rehearsal tests for the changes in this PR. Expand 'Interacting with pj-rehearse' for usage details. The following rehearsable tests have been affected by this change:

Test name Repo Type Reason
pull-ci-osac-project-osac-operator-main-e2e-vmaas osac-project/osac-operator presubmit Ci-operator config changed
pull-ci-osac-project-osac-test-infra-main-e2e-vmaas osac-project/osac-test-infra presubmit Ci-operator config changed
pull-ci-osac-project-fulfillment-service-main-e2e-vmaas osac-project/fulfillment-service presubmit Ci-operator config changed
pull-ci-osac-project-fulfillment-service-main-unit osac-project/fulfillment-service presubmit Ci-operator config changed
pull-ci-osac-project-osac-aap-main-e2e-vmaas osac-project/osac-aap presubmit Ci-operator config changed

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lgtm.

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Hi @adriengentil and @akshaynadkarni : Please can you review the #80782 ?

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