All ~100 Ubuntu jobs ran on every push to every pull request. They now
belong to three sets, chosen by each job's if: condition:
- PR set (16 configurations): every push to a pull request and every
push. Together with the checks that always run, these jobs would
have caught at least 92 % of the failing commits of Sep/Oct 2026.
- full set (73 configurations): after the PR set passed, on pushes and
on pull requests with the "🚀 ready to merge" label.
- nightly set (10 configurations): Infer, Valgrind, coverage, icpc,
icpx, nvhpc, CUDA, and ARM64; nightly on develop, on pushes to master
and release/*, and by hand. A failed nightly run opens or updates an
issue.
A matrix whose entries belong to different sets is split into one job
per set; the jobs share their steps through YAML anchors. No
configuration is removed: tools/ci_jobs/ci_jobs.py --compare lists 150
configurations before and after. The same tool checks in CI that every
job belongs to exactly one set, that the full set waits for the whole
PR set, and that the job table in quality_assurance.md is up to date.
The documentation describes the sets in a new section "How CI runs",
and the QA pipeline figure shows the new badges.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
ubuntu.yml, macos.yml and windows.yml run about 155 jobs on every pull
request, including those that change only the documentation. They now
have a pull_request path filter: it starts with '**' and excludes the
documentation, Markdown files, GitHub metadata, other workflows and the
license files, so a new file runs them unless it is excluded on purpose.
Pushes to develop, master and release/* are not filtered.
The documentation jobs and the REUSE check move from ubuntu.yml to the
new repository_checks.yml, which has no path filter and also runs
tools/check_path_filters. That check keeps the three filters identical
and fails when a file the compiler jobs keep mentions an excluded file.
It found two: tools/check_build_options reads the Meson section of
package_managers.md, and the swiftpm job builds the Swift example from
the documentation; both are included in the filter.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Niels Lohmann