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Support disabling bazel tests in release_ruleset.yaml
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Description
I'm looking at adopting attestations for the Apple rulesets (apple_support, rules_swift, rules_apple), and I noticed that the `Test` step of `release_ruleset.yaml` is non-optional. I believe we'd prefer not to run this, for two reasons:
- The vast majority of our tests require a macOS environment, and the workflow is configured to run on ubuntu-latest
- There are challenges with the tests running on GitHub Actions' macOS runners out-of-the-box that make a seamless transition from bazelci to GHA difficult to make a requirement.
- Testing rules_apple in particular takes a long time, and we wouldn't want this to block cutting a release
I was going to try hacking together a `bazel_test_command` input that tested nothing special to get us past this, but I would prefer we have a way to disable this in the workflow_call altogether. What do you think?
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Research direction
Read release_ruleset.yaml, focusing on the Test step and its workflow_call inputs. Determine how the workflow currently invokes Bazel tests and make that step optional for callers; done means a release can disable testing while the existing test behavior remains available.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100