checkmate

Checkmate 🕵️

Automated checklist inspector for your pull requests

Features

• Fails validation until all configured checklists in the pull request description are checked.
• Automatic checklists triggered on files modified in the pull request.
• Support for validating select lists i.e. radio button.
• Job summary workflow report.

Configuration

Pull Request Description Checks

In your PR description or issue template, place <!--Checkmate--> above the checklist block you want validated. A block of checklist items is one without empty lines in-between.

#### :heavy_check_mark: Checklist

<!--Checkmate-->

- [ ] Added or updated documentation
- [x] Tests for new functionality and regression tests for bug fixes

#### This checklist will not be validated

- [ ] This is ignored
- [ ] This is ignored
- [ ] This is ignored


#### Oasis or Blur?
This select list validates that only one item is selected.

<!--Checkmate select=1-->
- [ ] Oasis
- [ ] Blur

Then configure the action in your workflow like

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [edited, opened, reopened]

# cancel old edit events being processed
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
  
name: Checkmate
jobs:
  validate-checklists:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - name: Validate Checklists
      uses: roryq/checkmate@master

Automatic checklists

Similar to the workflow triggers on file paths, you can configure Checkmate to write a checklist comment on a pull request which will be validated along with the pull request description.

To enable the automated checklists configure the with.paths and the with.github_token inputs, and add the synchronize event for pull_request and listen to all issue_comment events.

If you want to use a Selectlist then the first item should be the <!--Checkmate select=1--> comment.

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [edited, opened, reopened, synchronize]
  issue_comment:

# cancel old edit events being processed
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
  
name: Checkmate
jobs:
  validate-checklists:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Validate Checklists
        uses: roryq/checkmate@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          paths: |
            docs/**/*.md:
              - I have got the grammar police to proofread my changes.
            schema/migrations/*.sql:
              - There are no breaking changes in these migrations
              - I have notified X team of the new schema changes
            database/*.go:
              - <!--Checkmate select=2-->
              - Strong Consistency
              - Availability
              - Partition Tolerance

Which will create and update a comment when the changeset files match the configured patterns.

Thanks for your contribution!
Please complete the following tasks related to your changes and tick the checklists when complete.

### Checklist for files matching *docs/\*\*/\*.md*
<!-- Checkmate filepath=docs/**/*.md -->
- [ ] I have got the grammar police to proofread my changes.

### Checklist for files matching *schema/migrations/\*.sql*
<!-- Checkmate filepath=schema/migrations/*.sql -->
- [ ] There are no breaking changes in these migrations
- [ ] I have notified X team of the new schema changes

### Select 2 for files matching *database/\*.go*
<!-- Checkmate select=2 filepath=database/*.go -->
- [ ] Strong Consistency
- [ ] Availability
- [ ] Partition Tolerance