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Reduce workflows on main

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#60 12 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, r
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Review the existing workflow definitions for push/main and pull-request/main, then compare the checks listed in the issue, including pkgdown, win-devel, ubuntu-devel, lintr, HTML, and examples. Confirm the intended split and validate that push/main runs only the selected checks while pull-request/main retains the complete set without reducing required coverage.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement

Given that we usually create PRs before changes enter the main branch, wouldn't it be enough to just run a few checks on push/main, and run all checks only on pull-request/main?

I'd suggest for push/main:

  • pkgdown
  • win-devel (or release?)
  • ubuntu-devel (or release?)
  • maybe some more, probably one check-hard-ubuntu-devel?

And for PR/main, all the above checks plus the remaining ones (lintr, HTML, all examples, ...).

This would save some resources.

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9
Forks
3
Avg merge
2h 14m
Merged PRs (30d)
6

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