Fix approval-gate skipping for org members in functional-test-cloud #11189
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The approval-gate job was incorrectly requiring approval for PRs from org members (like PR #11177 from DariuszPorowski). Root cause: The conditional environment expression evaluated to an empty string '' for trusted users. However, GitHub Actions treats an empty string as a valid environment reference (creating an empty-named environment), NOT as 'skip using an environment'. Fix: Skip the approval-gate job entirely for trusted users via the 'if' condition, rather than using a conditional environment. Update the setup job to also allow needs.approval-gate.result == 'skipped' so downstream jobs proceed correctly. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Niles <sylvainniles@microsoft.com>
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Description
Fix the approval-gate job in functional-test-cloud.yaml that was incorrectly gating PRs from org members (like PR #11177 from DariuszPorowski).
Root cause: The expression
environment: ${{ <condition> && '' || 'external-contributor-approval' }}evaluates to an empty string''for trusted users. However, GitHub Actions treats an empty string as a valid environment reference (creating an empty-named environment), NOT as "skip using an environment."Fix: Changed the approach to skip the
approval-gatejob entirely for trusted users viaifcondition, rather than using a conditional environment. Updated thesetupjob to also allowneeds.approval-gate.result == 'skipped'so downstream jobs proceed correctly.Type of change
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