Resolves sigstore/community#121

[n3k0m4]

Signed-off-by: n3k0m4 senpaineko1@gmail.com

Summary

This PR solves the Sigstore community issue #121 for Rekor.

To summarize the issue, all the Sigstore projects were running multiple workflows (unit & e2e tests, builds, ...) even when the changes were unimportant (.txt, .md, ...). This causes unnecessary use of resources.

The solution implemented in this PR is adding paths matching for the files that can trigger the execution of workflows.

Testing:

There are potentially two ways to test these changes:
Forking the repository and executing the steps below, or making a new branch in the current repo and adding the branch name in branches: inside the modified workflows, then executing the steps below.

1. Pull the changes
2. Modify .md, .txt or another file in paths like images
3. Commit the changes

Results: No actions should run.

Changes doc:

You can find the changes doc for this story here.

Release Note

Documentation

[n3k0m4]

cc @cpanato

[cpanato]

some comments thanks for working on this

[cpanato]

this is not good because this job is required and then this will never run or skipped and will be pending in the github status

I think for everything we should use the dorny/paths-filter

      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@v2
        id: filter
        with:
          filters: |
            terraform:
              - 'tests/**'

we will need to check if the syntax - '!images/**' works with this

[n3k0m4]

Could you explain more the first part: "will never run or skipped" ?

Also, dorny/paths-filter seems to handle the syntax !images/** in another way:

• Define the filters (paths that can trigger the job or a step in a workflow).
• Use if statement to choose if you want to trigger the job or not, based on the existence of the file or not.

[haydentherapper]

Hi, any interest in finishing this up? Otherwise let's close the PR

[cpanato]

lets close this PR for now, I think we did other changes in ci in the meantime

closing due to inactivity
if you are still interested please open a new PR, thanks for your contribution