Don't display GitHub Actions in Jira if all jobs are skipped

[atrigueiro]

GitHub Actions allows users to skip a job, using something like if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' in their .yml file. If all jobs from a workflow are skipped, we shouldn't display the workflow as a build/deploy in Jira, since nothing ran.

[mboudreau]

@atrigueiro Can you give an example of the whole workflow file?

[atrigueiro]

@mboudreau sure :) https://github.com/atrigueiro/test-github-jira/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy.yml#L12

[marktarry-mobysoft]

Another use-case for this is where a deployment workflow is triggered, but never executed due to use of either (or both!):

• concurrency guards
• environment protection rules

We typically use both of these features for our deployment workflows:

• Deployments are triggered by a release event (type=published)
• Many of our environments will have protection rules enabled - requiring at least 1 approval
• All of our deployment workflows use concurrency guards to block concurrent deployments to the same environment

If a release goes unapproved, it is cancelled by GitHub when the next release event is triggered:

These cancelled workflow runs then appear in Jira as failed deployments:

...and we're seeing a lot of these!